Dec 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM UTC
Saving Artificial Minds in 2027: Some Recent Trends in AI Welfare Research
Online. Free, register on Luma for the link. The talk and Q&A are recorded; the video and an edited transcript are published here afterwards.
- Date
- Dec 15, 2026
- Time
- 6:00 PM UTC
- Format
- ~60 min, online
About this talk
This talk would, first, present key themes of my book Saving Artificial Minds (published in 2025) and then survey key developments in AI welfare research since then. I would also present some opinionated views on these topics that are based on my work since the book publication and some other theories I endorse. Likely topics would be:
- The emergence of concrete behavioral and mechanistic empirical research programs on AI welfare
- Debates on AI identity
- The discovery of persona vectors and the relevance of personas to AI welfare
- Questions of legal rights on AI