Should AIs get legal rights? Wired Magazine

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by Kylie Robison, 4 September. (Paywall)

In Silicon Valley, there’s a small but growing field called model welfare, which is working to figure out whether AI models are conscious and deserving of moral considerations, such as legal rights. Within the past year, two research organizations studying model welfare have popped up: Conscium and Eleos AI Research.

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