📝 Its time to talk about ‘model welfare’ AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. However, there’s a growing movement in support of model welfare; the idea that we might soon owe them a duty of care. I think this approach to AI development is wrong, and it’ll most likely make the challenge of alignment and containment much harder. Perhaps impossible. Today I’m publishing an essay outlining my concerns: https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-ab… In…