Think tank writing on moral circle expansion — how societies decide which beings deserve moral consideration, including animals and potentially sentient AI systems. All posts, reports and survey data are free to read.
In plain terms: Sentience Institute is a interdisciplinary think tank researching long-term social and technological change, particularly moral circle expansion.
Why I recommend it: Takes questions most AI coverage skips — whether AI systems could ever warrant moral consideration — and treats them carefully rather than sensationally.
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A Nonhuman Minds project combining philosophy, empirical benchmarks and engagement with AI companies on how AI alignment work can account for the welfare of animals and, potentially, AI systems. It publishes candidate commitments for model specs and constitutions.
Academic initiative edited by Seth Lazar, Jeffrey Howard and Rachel Sterken, with an annual conference and planned open-access Oxford University Press volume. The public site describes its scope, paper submission rules and AI usage policy; it is not a published research paper.
Communications of the ACM research article synthesizing a 44-person workshop on AI, accessibility, and employment for disabled workers. It covers employment gaps, AI errors and hallucinations in situations where accuracy is critical, AI-scored video interviews that can screen out workers with non-normative speech or movement, accessibility overlays that may not work as advertised, and accountability gaps when inaccessible tools come from third-party vendors. Free to read.
Aaron Sibarium’s Washington Free Beacon feature examines Anthropic’s constitution for Claude and moral-philosophy views attributed to people connected with its development. The article’s interpretations and characterizations are the publication’s reporting, not independent findings.
A 2020 AIES paper by Abeba Birhane and Jelle van Dijk arguing that the robot-rights debate distracts from the harms AI systems already do to people, especially marginalized groups.
A Harvard Business School Working Knowledge article by Avery Forman (June 8, 2026) on research by Livia Alfonsi. A study of about 5,500 people in Kenya before and during the COVID-19 pandemic found that financial stress made most participants more willing to cheat; the article covers steps companies can take to deter cheating and support employees. Free to read.
