The current AI's are a gift – a training sandbox in which we can explore these ideas, prompted by confusing but likely non-agential systems, before the arrival of true diverse intelligences makes these ethical questions immediate and dire.

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• Current AI systems are a gift — a training sandbox in which humanity can explore ethical questions about diverse intelligence before the arrival of true diverse intelligences makes these questions immediate and dire.claim0.952
  Reframes AI not as threat but as preparatory exercise for the harder ethical challenges to come
• our analysis suggests that no current AI systems are conscious, but also suggests that there are no obvious technical barriers to building AI systems which satisfy these indicators.quote0.812
  Key takeaway from abstract, amended version.
• We would like to train AI systems that remain helpful, honest, and harmless, even as some AI capabilities reach or exceed human-level performance.quote0.809
  Foundational motivation for the research.
• If an AI system could be a welfare subject and moral patient, then many model instances could be run after training, scaling up the problem rapidly.hypothesis0.809
  Scalability concern.
• There is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic, and thus morally significant, in the near future.claim0.804
  Central thesis of the report.
• Recent AI advances are revolutionary but far from recapitulating human-like cognitive abilities or consciousness.claim0.800
• Many recent discussions of AI, and its impact on individuals and on society, are importantly incomplete because they neglect Diverse Intelligence, synthetic morphology, and developmental biology.claim0.800
  Central thesis of the paper — the framing premise from which all other arguments follow
• Future AI systems could be rational autonomous agents without affective consciousness.claim0.791
  Practical significance: possible near-future non-sentient autonomous AI.