[qwertox]

"Model welfare" is clickbait. The core of the message is about if models can be conscious.

The video is worth watching. Maybe embedding it in an article so strongly focused on the welfare topic is a mistake, but then: why not, if this is what it takes the then-outraged news outlets to put the topic of AI consciousness on the table?

To me the p-zombie theory will most likely always be applicable to any non-wet AI, no matter how brilliant it will be.

[econ]

Long ago I coin robotmancipation as a joke but also as a thought experiment. My conclusion is that we have so much mirroring behaviour that we should be very afraid. Someone long ago said the way we treat animals today will be the way we treat people tomorrow. There are no part time respectable people.