“Announcing AI Welfare Debate Week (July 1-7)” by Toby Tremlett

July 1-7 will be AI Welfare Debate Week on the EA Forum. We will be discussing the debate statement: “AI welfare[1] should be an EA priority[2]”. The Forum team will be contacting authors who are well-versed in this topic to post, but we also welcome posts, comments, quick takes and link-posts from any Forum user who is interested. All participating posts should be tagged with the AI Welfare Debate Week tag. We will be experimenting with a banner where users can mark how strongly they agree or disagree with the debate statement, and a system which uses the posts we record as changing your mind to produce a list of the most influential posts. Illustration found on Better Images of AI Should AI welfare be an EA priority? AI welfare — the capacity of digital minds to feel pleasure, pain, happiness, suffering, satisfaction, frustration, or other morally significant [...] ---Outline:(00:51) Should AI welfare be an EA priority?(01:59) My hopes for this debate(02:52) FAQs(02:55) How does the banner work?(03:34) How are the “most influential posts” calculated?(04:07) Do I have to write in the style of a debate?(04:37) Further ReadingsThe original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: June 18th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/PeBNdpoRSq59kAfDW/announcing-ai-welfare-debate-week-july-1-7 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.