“The assumption is that everybody thinks that the models are, in fact, conscious, or are very likely to be conscious. And instead, [the call for AI welfare] is coming from uncertainty and caution and humility,” says Sebo. “I do think that the probability of consciousness is low right now, but I also think the probability is already non-zero and plausibly non-negligible, and I think we can expect it to tick up over time.”
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