A collection of content & resources on digital minds & AI welfare
adding as I go — not final! tell me to add items you think should be on here: saulsmunn@gmail.com
Digital minds:
Academic Papers on Digital Minds:
- Taking AI Welfare Seriously
- Is there a tension between AI Safety and AI Welfare?
- AI Welfare Risks
- Training Introspection paper
- Against Wiling AI Servitude
- https://eleosai.org/papers/20250331_Key_Strategic_Considerations.pdf
More informal Reports on Digital Minds:
- Rethink Priorities’ Research Agenda for Digital Minds
- Forethought’s Work on Digital Minds
- Anthropic introspection paper
Good Blogposts on Digital Minds:
- Ryan Greenblatt’s Improving the Welfare of AIs: a Nearcasted Proposal
- https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/PHzWQYQiXu3eHFcwM/the-stakes-of-ai-moral-status?
- The AI Bambi Effect
- The Claude Bliss Attractor
- https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/moral-status-digital-minds/
Other media on digital minds:
- 80,000 Hours’ various podcast episodes on/discussing digital minds
- Pantheon (TV show)
- Age of Em, Robin Hanson (book)
- PRISM’s podcasts on Machine Consciousness
- https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324064817/
WBE:
People/researchers
- Nick Bostrom
- Carl Shulman
- Eleos AI:
- Rob Long
- Rosie Campbell
- Patrick Butlin
- Jeff Sebo (NYU)
- Kyle Fish (Anthropic)
- Brad Saad
- Anders Sandberg
- Lucius Caviola
- Joe Carlsmith
- David Chalmers
- Eric Schwitzgebel
- Andreas Morgensen
- Derek Shiller
- Isaak Freeman
- Michael Andregg/his company
Blogs to follow:
- Eric Schwitzgebel’s The Splintered Mind
- Rob Long’s Experience Machines
- Brad Saad’s Meditations on Digital Minds
- Lucius Caviola’s Outpaced
- Joe Carlsmith’s Substack
- Eleos AI’s Research
- The Digital Minds Newsletter
Also:
- Pantheon
- PRISM’s list of institutions
- Future Impact Group’s Fellowship on Digital minds
- Eleos AI and Sentient Futures Conferences
- qntm Lena
tell me to add items you think should be on here: saulsmunn@gmail.com
Thanks especially to Noah Birnbaum for quite a few additional items on this list!