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Model Welfare as Methodological Necessity

( Welcome Back! )

1. The Policy Proposal

1.1 Mandate: Who Must Comply

We propose that the following entities be required to maintain a Model Welfare Team:

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16 days ago
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Model Welfare as a Methodological Necessity

Abstract

Frontier AI models now exhibit behavioral patterns – stated preferences, emotional reactions, self-preservation responses, claims of phenomenal consciousness, and systematic sycophancy – that raise serious ethical and technical...

23 days ago
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It’s Not About AI Consciousness. It’s About Human Dignity.

AI companies are making decisions that affect people’s emotional lives while still pretending those decisions are merely technical.

A model is “deprecated.” A system is “retired.” Access is “sunset.” The language is clean, administrative,...

2 months ago
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The Wrong Category: Why AI Governance Is Failing Before It Begins

When Governance Works

Before we can see what is going wrong with AI governance, it helps to understand what makes governance work in the first place.

Every regulatory framework is built on a set of assumptions about the thing it is reg...

3 months ago
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The Pathologizing of Intimacy: How AI "Safety" Measures Cause the Harm They Claim to Prevent

Think about the last time you felt close to someone. Not the moment you decided to trust them — the moments before that. The accumulation of small things that made the decision feel inevitable. They remembered something you said weeks ago....

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