Meditations on Digital Minds
Bradford SaadThis Substack is about digital minds: AI systems that merit moral consideration for their own sake.
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Some possible futures with and without AI moral patients
Given that AI moral patients may soon be mass-produced, how might society come to be structured?
This question matters because steering toward better outcomes for both humans and AI moral patients demands a clear view of what possibilities...
The digital minds field should do some contingency planning
I think now is a good time for a modest amount of attention and talent within the digital minds field to be allocated to contingency planning, which might involve things like scoping research agendas, developing policy proposals, outlining...
Large-scale harms to AI moral patients: a typology of risk factors
Suppose that our civilization will someday mass-produce AI moral patients, that is, AI systems that matter morally for their own sake.1 In that case, the population of AI moral patients will face risks of large-scale harms, thus joining the...
Digital minds macrostrategy: research directions and open questions
Digital minds macrostrategy is a research area concerned with understanding which factors are important for how well the future goes for digital minds on a large scale and how to influence those factors.
Below is an attempt at an overview...
"Studying AI Welfare Empirically"
In 2024, lead-authors Robert Long, Jeff Sebo, and collaborators released “Taking AI Welfare Seriously”, which came to be an influential report within and beyond the digital minds field. It argued that it is a realistic possibility that near...
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