AI Welfare: Agency, Consciousness, Sentience - Couverture rigide

Goldstein, Simon; Kirk-Giannini, Cameron Domenico

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0197840345 ISBN 13 : 9780197840344

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2026

Synopsis

Artificial systems are becoming increasingly capable and agentic. In the face of these changes, a key philosophical question is: could AIs have welfare? Goldstein and Kirk-Giannini assert that whether AIs have welfare depends on three factors: whether they possess agency (beliefs and desires), consciousness (subjective experience), and sentience (the capacity for pleasure and displeasure). AI Welfare argues that AIs already possess agency, and that minor modifications to existing AIs could plausibly produce consciousness and sentience. Goldstein and Kirk-Giannini also explore nine crucial open questions about AI welfare, as follows: How should we identify which desires contribute to welfare? Is consciousness required for welfare? Do simple AIs like Roombas have welfare? Do tiny neural networks satisfy the conditions of functionalist theories of consciousness? Does consciousness require rich representational formats? Could AIs experience bodily pleasures and displeasures? Are pleasure and displeasure essentially access-conscious? Are simulated minds real? Are LLMs merely stochastic parrots? AI Welfare offers provisional answers to each of these questions while also leaving room for future discussion, with the goal of demonstrating how the methods of analytic philosophy can help answer essential questions in this emerging field.

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Simon Goldstein is an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on philosophy of AI, epistemology, and philosophy of language. Before moving to Hong Kong University, he worked at the Center for AI Safety, the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, and at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He received his BA from Yale University, and his PhD from Rutgers University, where he wrote a dissertation about philosophical logic. Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini is an associate professor of philosophy at Rutgers University-Newark. His research focuses on the philosophy of AI, social philosophy, and the philosophy of language. He has been a fellow at the Center for AI Safety in San Francisco and the AI and Humanity Project at the Institute of Philosophy in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0197840345
• ISBN 13: 9780197840344
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 276
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