Forbes October 31, 2024
In many of our conferences, lectures, classes and events, we’ve been keeping an eye on this – the idea that we’re going to need to apply moral philosophy to our interaction with AI.
This cuts both ways – we have to think about how AI systems will affect humans, and, increasingly, how we may affect them.
Transformer’s report on news that Anthropic has hired Kyle Sing as a full-time AI welfare expert is just the latest harbinger of a new movement to understand better whether we have obligations to AI models.
“Fish, who joined the company’s alignment science team in mid-September, told Transformer that he is tasked with investigating ‘model welfare’ and what companies should do about it,” writes Shakeel...