The Non-Compassionate Case for Model Welfare
Examines cutting-edge AI ethics research on moral status of models that will impact safety protocols and deployment policies.
AI Summary
Anthropic has updated its usage policy to prohibit sustained abusive behavior toward its models, highlighting growing industry focus on 'model welfare' as an emerging ethical frontier.
Excerpt
Anthropic is updating their usage policy to prohibit “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward [their] models.” Model welfare (research into the possible moral status and experiential preferences of AI models) is shaping up to be a huge, razor-sharp scissor in the AI industry. It’s one of those topics that’ll leave proponents and opponents alike appalled at one another, scratching their heads and sputtering, dumbfoundedly, how could you possibly think that? The concept itself rode