Emerging questions in AI welfare Geoff Keeling, Winnie Street

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keeling, Geoff, author.

Street, Winnie, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in philosophy and AI

Cambridge elements. Elements in philosophy and AI 2977-7429

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.

Artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"This Element investigates whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems could ever be welfare subjects. Some people argue that AIs could plausibly have or soon have features such as consciousness, agency and the capacity for social relationships, which could provide a basis for AI welfare. These arguments have massive significance for the societal conversation on AI, raising profound ethical and political questions about what if anything we owe to these new technologies. The authors here provide the philosophical groundwork for a scientific, philosophical and ultimately democratic inquiry into the potential for AI welfare, addressing key questions that cut across different arguments: what welfare is, how to interpret behavioural evidence of AI welfare, what kinds of entities might qualify as candidate AI welfare subjects, the potential grounds for welfare in AI and the practical ethical challenges that arise from our uncertainty"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

The question of AI welfare

Behavioural “evidence”

Models, characters, agents

Grounding welfare

Practical ethics

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed May 20, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Keeling, Geoff Emerging questions in AI welfare

ISBN:

1009732005

9781009732000

OCLC:

1581543075

Access Restriction:

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