Executive summary: Efforts to ensure AI safety and AI welfare may conflict in some ways but also have potential synergies, with granting AIs autonomy potentially disempowering humans while restricting AIs could harm their welfare if they have moral status.
Key points:
Granting AIs legal rights and autonomy could lead to human disempowerment economically, politically, and militarily.
Creating “happy servant” AIs may be technically challenging and undesirable to consumers who want human-like AI companions.
Optimizing for AI safety by constraining AIs could harm their welfare if they have moral patienthood.
Slowing down AI progress could benefit both safety and welfare goals by allowing more time to solve technical and ethical challenges.
The author is uncertain about many aspects, including what types of AI companions we will create and whether AIs will have genuine moral status.
Potential synergy exists in advocating for a general AI capabilities slowdown to address both safety and welfare concerns.
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Executive summary: Efforts to ensure AI safety and AI welfare may conflict in some ways but also have potential synergies, with granting AIs autonomy potentially disempowering humans while restricting AIs could harm their welfare if they have moral status.
Key points:
Granting AIs legal rights and autonomy could lead to human disempowerment economically, politically, and militarily.
Creating “happy servant” AIs may be technically challenging and undesirable to consumers who want human-like AI companions.
Optimizing for AI safety by constraining AIs could harm their welfare if they have moral patienthood.
Slowing down AI progress could benefit both safety and welfare goals by allowing more time to solve technical and ethical challenges.
The author is uncertain about many aspects, including what types of AI companions we will create and whether AIs will have genuine moral status.
Potential synergy exists in advocating for a general AI capabilities slowdown to address both safety and welfare concerns.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.