AI welfare and rights: what it is, and how experts rate it
Ethical considerations regarding the treatment of potentially sentient AI entities, including discussions around their potential rights and welfare, particularly as AI systems become more advanced and autonomous.
Definition and category 7.5 from the MIT AI Risk Repository, used under CC BY 4.0.
How experts rate it
Rated, but excluded from the published figures. None of the ten harm categories in the study's severity rubric treated an AI system as an entity that could itself be harmed, so experts were instructed to adapt the human rights column. The authors caution that the low ratings this risk received should not be read as expert judgement that it is unimportant.
MIT FutureTech Delphi study of 272 international experts · CC BY 4.0
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