Can you provide some specific examples, and Iāll reconsider
I mostly had this section in mind. I think the positive correlation between hedonic welfare and reported seemingly honest preferences in humans provides some weak evidence that there is such a correlation for AIs. There are some similarities between humans and AIs.
Iām not sure if we āagreeā here, or at least thatās not the point I was making. I was accepting that AI models (either the information flow itself, or the physical electron flows or something) might indeed āhaveā or generate consciousness and welfare.
Right. However, I think AI welfare being difficult to measure conditional on sentience tends to imply that assessing AI sentience is also difficult. So I would prioritise decreasing uncertainty about this too.
What I meant was that even if the AI is making a confident statement that it is in pain, and it is not deliberately lying, it doesnāt mean that it actually knows the answer to āis it (or is anything in itās system) in painā.
So the āeven ifā was setting off a contrast between ānot having a access to the answerā and āmaking a confident statementā.
I mostly had this section in mind. I think the positive correlation between hedonic welfare and reported seemingly honest preferences in humans provides some weak evidence that there is such a correlation for AIs. There are some similarities between humans and AIs.
Right. However, I think AI welfare being difficult to measure conditional on sentience tends to imply that assessing AI sentience is also difficult. So I would prioritise decreasing uncertainty about this too.
Makes sense.