Research
Real-world work on AI welfare and moral status.
Anthropic's Model Welfare Initiative: When an AI Lab Hires a Welfare Researcher
In 2024, Anthropic became the first major frontier-AI laboratory to treat the moral status of its own models as a research program. The implications are larger than the program itself.
2026-05-18
PETRL: A Movement Before Its Time
In 2015, a small group founded People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners. The press treated it as satire. Nine years later, the major AI labs caught up.
2026-05-18
Eric Schwitzgebel: A Philosophy of Designing Things We Might Owe Moral Concern
Eric Schwitzgebel argues that the moral status of AI is uncertain — and that the right response to that uncertainty is not to wait, but to redesign what we build.
2026-05-18