Research discussions on AI welfare, consciousness, and moral status.

AI Welfare Seminars

A Dilemma for Biological Naturalists About Moral Patiency

, researcher in philosophy at NYU and Oxford, and research affiliate at Cambridge Digital Minds

In this talk, I explain why biological naturalism about moral patiency deserves a more prominent role in debates about AI welfare. I then develop a dilemma for the view. Conditional on a physicalist view of consciousness, biological naturalists about moral patiency face one set of challenges; conditional on a non-physicalist view of consciousness, they face another.

 is a series of research presentations and discussion on AI welfare, consciousness and moral status.

A Dilemma for Biological Naturalists About Moral Patiency – Bradford Saad

Vasu Raman

Alina Garcia

Xanthe Smith

Francesca Hernandez