Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague
Published July 23, 2025 | Version 1
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Against AI Welfare: Care Practices Should Prioritize Living Beings Over AI

Creators

  • 1. Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics, Prague (CETE-P), Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
  • 2. EDMO icon Stanford University
  • 3. University of Edinburgh
  • 4. Centre for Technomoral Futures, Edinburgh Futures Institute
  • 5. EDMO icon University of Vienna
  • 6. ROR icon Centre for European Policy Studies
  • 7. ROR icon Universität der Bundeswehr München

Description

In this Comment, we critique the growing “AI welfare” movement and propose a novel guideline, the Precarity Guideline, to determine care entitlement. In contrast to approaches that emphasize potential for suffering, the Precarity Guideline is grounded in empirically identifiable features. The severity of ongoing humanitarian crises, biodiversity loss, climate change provide additional reasons to prioritize the needs of living beings over machine learning algorithms as candidates for care.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1002/aaai.70016

Related works

Is published in
Journal article: 10.1002/aaai.70016 (DOI)
Is version of
Preprint: 10.31219/osf.io/h57pw_v1 (DOI)

Funding

European Commission
CETE-P - Establishing the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics - Prague 101086898

Dates

Accepted
2025-07-23
Author's Accepted Manuscript

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