The personal site of Joe Carlsmith, a writer, researcher and philosopher at Anthropic working on Claude's constitution, with essays on ethics, effective altruism, the long-term future and advanced AI.
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Dylan Matthews' 2014 Vox profile of a philosopher who argues that harming characters in video games raises genuine moral questions — an early popular look at the ethics of digital minds.
SF Standard (Sept. 26, 2026) on a gathering of philosophers and tech workers at Berkeley's Lighthaven to debate AI welfare and consciousness — whether chatbots could feel pain, love, or refuse military service.
Philosopher Robert Long's list of publications on AI consciousness and welfare, including "Taking AI Welfare Seriously" (2024) and "Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness" (2023).
The personal site of Jeff Sebo, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at New York University, where he directs the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection and the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy and co-directs the Wild Animal Welfare Program. His work examines how to build a just future for all sentient beings, with research on the nature and intrinsic value of nonhuman minds — including invertebrates and AI systems. The site links to his research, teaching, media appearances and the centers he leads.
Anil Seth's January 2026 essay, winner of the 2025 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition. He argues consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation, and that building conscious or conscious-seeming AI is a bad idea.
A September 2026 arXiv paper by Shamil Chandaria, Anil Seth, Henry Shevlin, Murray Shanahan, Shane Legg and others. It extends Marr's levels of analysis into a five-level hierarchy of functional descriptions to organize competing theories of whether AI could be conscious.
