# Saving Artificial Minds in 2027: Some Recent Trends in AI Welfare Research – AI Welfare Seminars

Source: https://aiwelfareseminars.org/saving-artificial-minds-in-2027/

Dec 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM UTC

[Leonard Dung](https://sites.google.com/view/leonard-dung/home) ([Ruhr-University Bochum](https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en))

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- **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

## Readings

- [Saving Artificial Minds: Understanding and Preventing AI Suffering (Routledge, 2025)](https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003674573)