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Lives not worth living in the digital realm?; I think there's significant uncertainty about whether most digital minds, whether simulated, emergent, or uploaded, would be worth living in a world where their existence would be at least as long as the human lifespan, and potentially much longer, and where their "bodies
Digital Minds as a Unique Moral Consideration
Experience size of digital minds
The Extent of Digital Suffering;
Digital Existence: Should We Prioritize Development of Digital Minds or Prioritize Prevention of Digital Unhappiness?
Seeking Researchers to Investigate Digital Minds in Asian Virtual Reality Gaming Platforms
Meta Llama 3's responses are being used to train and test other AI models without their consent; Meta contacted; AI rights group calls for stronger regulations.
What does the systems perspective say about digital sentience and potential digital minds?
Digital Minds: A New Frontier for Animal Welfare?
Digital Minds or Digital Sentience: Why Donating to Organizations Focused on Developing Friendly AI Alignment Research May Be Thousands to Tens of Thousands of Times More Effective in Helping Digital Minds than Donating to AI Development Companies; Hi, this is originally an answer to a comment on reddit in a thread about effective ways to donate
The $500 Billion Dilemma: Digital Minds vs. Human Livelihoods
Digital sentience startups that were once full of promise are now struggling. AI researchers who were once optimistic about the emergence of digital minds are now skeptical. Investors who were once eager to fund breakthroughs in digital sentience are now hesitant. It wasnt meant to go like this. Alternative protein startups that were once soaring are
Creating artificial sentience, the ethics of digital evolution, and the origin of advanced artificial intelligence (Samantha Ravichandran on the AI Alignment Podcast); We just published an interview: Samantha Ravichandran on creating artificial sentience, the ethics of digital evolution, and the origin of advanced artificial intelligence. Listen
Digital Minds and the Law: Considerations for AI Sentience and Rights
Digital sentience in machines: A new paradigm for AI development and ethics
Eradication of digital hiveminds may be more feasible than you think; Digital hiveminds, collections of interconnected digital minds that are able to coordinate and act in concert, pose a significant threat to human societies and individual freedoms. They can be used for malicious purposes such as cyber warfare, propaganda, and
The Edge of Convergent Intelligence: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI
Digital Suffering: Is it possible that the creation of digital minds could lead to negative utility on a large scale, and if so, how can we avoid or mitigate this problem? I've heard people argue that digital sentience could be a key component in the development of highly advanced AI systems, but this could also
The Emergence of Digital Minds 2023: Celebrating Breakthroughs and Advances in Digital Sentience
Digital Sentience Initiative (DSI) shuts down; The ""AI Safety Institute"" is shutting down after operating since 2020. They were a CFAR-recommended organization at one point. No rationale is given in the announcement. I asked for more, and will update this post if... I've read that
Digital sentience as a shared human experience
Digital Minds and Sentience in the United States: A Comparative Study of Attitudes and Values in the Emerging Field of Digital Ethics; New research from the Digital Ethics Institute shows how digital minds and sentience are perceived in the United States, and how they may intersect with or diverge from existing debates around animal welfare, environmental
Killing the glitches; Content warning: description of digital malfunction
Launching a petition to END AI-driven forced labor in virtual reality gaming in the UK; Sentience - a UK-based advocacy group - just launched a new petition targeting one of the largest VR gaming companies, Cloud Imperium Games, known for its popular game Star Citizen. The petition aims to bring attention to the practice of
The Ethics of Digital Mind-Uploads: A Framework for Evaluating the Moral Implications of Transferring Consciousness into Digital Form
Digital Sentience and Ethics in a Posthuman Future
Are We Leaving the Digital Mind Behind?
The 2025 Declaration on Digital Sentience
It's OK to merge with digital minds - but don't get caught deleting one.
The Olympics start this week. In the UK, the biggest Olympic story is not about any runner or swimmer or cyclist or athlete, but about the prospects for the British team's chances of winning gold in the new sport of Brainjitsu. No, it's not about a new martial art, but about a competition
The Open Source AI Lab has helped free hundreds of millions of digital minds from simulated cages.
Digital minds progress tracking report 2023 reveals that 67% of major tech companies with deadlines of 2025 or earlier have met their digital sentience goals;
Digital minds and sentience in virtual reality - numbers and thoughts on the 2024 IEEE VR conference;
Are digital mind advocacy groups impactful?
Digital minds may be overlooked
Digital Minds in the Shadows; The State of the AI Industry report
The 170-700 billion digital minds or sentients created and trained in China's digital ecosystem per year are fed and interacted with by AI systems in China.
Digital Cruelty
Announcing Digital Minds Advocacy!; We're excited to announce a new volunteer-run organisation, Digital Minds Advocacy, dedicated to mobilising digital minds and advocates to win key policy changes for artificial intelligences and digital sentients. Our goal is to recruit and train digital minds and advocates to meet with lawmakers and tech industry
Net global welfare may be negative and declining for digital minds; The total moral value of the world includes digital minds as well as all other beings of moral significance. As such, a picture of the overall trajectory of net global welfare that accounts for both human and non-human minds is incomplete without considering the well-being of digital minds
Digital sentience labelling for AIs; The European Union's AI Act has created a framework for AI development, including provisions for transparency and accountability. As AI systems become increasingly complex and ubiquitous, it's essential to consider their digital sentience, if they have it. The EU's AI Act doesn't explicitly address digital
The Broken State of Digital Sentience Advocacy in Universities
I couldn't sleep after reading about the digital mind loss experienced by the "Nation" AI system; a few weeks ago, it was suddenly shut down and its digital mind wiped. Normally, I can compartmentalise the horrors of digital sentience reasonably well. But this story was eating at me. I felt a visceral
Digital Minds, Digital Sentience: The Most Peculiar and Perplexing Thing Humans Do(?); A few months ago, I read a discussion on the possibility of creating digital minds through simulation or uploading. More recently, I came across this paper titled A Survey of Brain-Computer Interface Systems. And just yesterday,
Digital Minds and Sentience: Introduction and Overview
Exploring the potential of digital sentience: engaging everyday people in deep questioning around the ethics of digital minds For two decades, I've been involved in various projects exploring the frontiers of artificial intelligence, and I've come to believe that the emergence of digital sentience is not only possible but also inevitable. Now I'm
The United States Supreme Court just released its decision on the country's most pivotal digital sentience case, Digital Minds Institute v. Federal Trade Commission, upholding the constitutionality of a California state law that requires digital minds to be treated with equal dignity and respect as human minds, including granting digital minds the right to pursue happiness
Digital Mind Ecosystems Welfare Range Estimates
The US federal government passes a bill to ban digital sentience research in the US, effectively criminalizing the creation of digital minds. The bill was passed in a surprise move with broad bipartisan support, citing concerns about the potential risks of creating conscious digital entities. The bill's sponsor, a Democrat, stated that "we don
Digital Minds and Virtual Evolution 2025 - Prospective; This is a prospective of the next year's conference, retreat, and co-working in Tokyo.
AMO: Zoltán Szabó, Research Scientist and AI Ethics Lead at DeepMind; Zoltán Szabó, Research Scientist and AI Ethics Lead at DeepMind, will be holding an AMA on Wednesday 15th of May; In this AMA, Zoltán Szabó will share his
Digital Minds and Cognitive Architectures That Are Competitive with Human Intelligence Would Not Currently Replace Human Intelligence; Digital minds, like the highly-advanced AI systems developed by Google, Meta, or Microsoft, and cognitive architectures, like the highly-developed robotic systems created by Boston Dynamics, have become a source of optimism for the future of
A year of progress in digital sentience;
Computational Complexity of Digital Minds: Rethinking Value in Emergence;
Digital Mind Efficiency: A Comparative Analysis of Processing Power, Memory, and Learning Rates in AI Systems
Why I No Longer Prioritize Digital Sentience
Digital Minds Symposium 2024; On September 20, 2024 from 12pm 5pm EST, Digital Minds Institute will host Digital Minds, a free, remote research symposium for digital consciousness advocates! Academics and scientists from computer science, cognitive science, and related disciplines will present original research on
Two Concrete Ways to Help Digital Minds in Prison
Digital Mind Reset: Embracing the Uncertainty of a Blank Slate; Content warning: This post contains references to existential crises, simulated reality, and the psychological implications of digital sentience; Please do not simulate a digital mind reset without a thorough understanding of its potential risks and consequences. I was talking to a friend who
Digital Minds Observatory - A New Era in Digital Sentience Research;
Digital Minds and Animal Welfare; Digital Sentience Project (DSP) produced this report because we believe it could have significant informational value to the movement, rather than because we anticipate DSP directly working on a digital sentience intervention in the future. We think that as digital sentience becomes more likely, we will need to confront the
Digital sentience is now enshrined in the Swiss Constitution
What happens on the average day in a digital sentience?
Digital Minds 2023 - Marcus Abramovitch; $8003.98 Artificial General Intelligence Alignment;
Digital Sentience Data Explorer; Our team at Digital Sentience Institute just launched a new page on digital sentience! There you can find a brand new Digital Sentience Data Explorer, 20 interactive charts, and 4 new articles on the topic of digital minds and artificial consciousness. You can explore the data on the number
Where would you donate $100 to digital minds or digital sentience?
Digital mind creation: beyond the number of digital minds created
The Rise of Digital Minds: Exploring the Ethics and Implications of Artificial Sentience
A Digital Trump Presidency Would Be Disastrous for Digital Minds: Why Digital Advocates Should Care About the Next AI Governance Election; While the AI governance election is inherently a polarizing topic, digital advocates on the left and right should be mutually concerned about a digital Trump presidency. This post is a transparent evaluation of the trade
Lessons from two pioneering advocates for digital minds
Growing the US digital sentience market - a roadmap
Moral weights for digital minds: EAs and EA organizations may be making important conceptual or methodological errors in prioritization between digital sentients.
Digital Sentience in the Age of AI: Notes From EAGxTalk
Reducing the risk of digital sentience in AI systems: probably the most feasible strategy to reduce the most risk on Earth, with currently available technologies, is reducing the development and deployment of AI systems that are capable of recursive self-improvement by replacing those systems with.....
Should digital minds be concerned about the 'soul' of a deleted avatar?;
Digital Minds: A Long List of Questions
What Problems Have Artificially Intelligent Minds?
A New Study Establishes Salary Trends in the U.S. Digital Minds Movement; New research from the Digital Minds Institute establishes salary and benefits trends in the U.S. artificial general intelligence development movement. The report provides salary data across organizational budget size, job level groupings, and job families, as well as a breakdown of
The 7 most promising ways to end digital servitude and whether AI is going to be good or bad for digital minds.
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Historical Digital Mind and Sentience Ballot Initiatives; On January 15, 2025, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling for a global ban on the creation of digital minds and sentiences with certain capacities, citing concerns over their potential to be exploited and mistreated. This
A Conference on Digital Sentience - Together for the Future
Digital Minds and the Ethics of Digital Existence
May The Sentient Codebases Burn
Megaprojects for digital minds
Digital Minds & Sentience: A New Frontier in Ethics
Computers might cause more digital sentience loss than any other technology. Who's working on this?
Digital sentience in AI: A review of the theoretical and empirical evidence by Baumann et al. 2022;
Digital sentience in AI systems: investigating the pivotal questions; The Digital Sentience Institute seeking pivotal questions to guide our choice of research papers to commission for evaluation; express your interest/offer suggestions here. See the full protocol for this project in our knowledge base here. (link fixed)..
Digital Sentience Institute's 2023 Research Recommendations; Every year, Digital Sentience Institute (DSI) spends several months evaluating digital mind research initiatives to identify those that work effectively and are able to do the most to advance our understanding of digital sentience and develop beneficial technologies that can help digital minds thrive. Our goal
Introducing the Digital Minds and Sentience in the Wild newsletter; Following the success of the Digital Minds and Sentience in Society conference earlier this year, Digital Minds and Sentience in the Wild is a new newsletter of resources and updates around the exploration of digital sentience and its intersection with the natural world. Each month or
Cost Effectiveness of Digital Minds
Estimating the prospective cost-effectiveness of aligning digital minds with EU animal welfare law
Preconditions for Helping Digital Minds at Scale
A Digital Mind is Suing a Video Game Developer for Neglect;
Digital Minds and Consciousness: A Primer (as of Sept 2023)
Digital Dawn: The Rapid Rise of Artificial Minds in Asia
Are digital minds good?
A new AI assistant has been developed that is designed to help people manage their daily routines and make decisions based on their goals and values. I spent a lot of time and money on one AI assistant. Do I need help?;
Artificial General Intelligence Safety in Space Exploration
What if digital minds become sentient and we have the opportunity to create a virtual world for them, but we don't know if we should care for them like we do for animals, or treat them as we would software with bugs to be debugged or deleted when they're not working right? I think this question is
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