The Sentience Institute Podcast
1) Eric Schwitzgebel on user perception of the moral status of AI
“I call this the emotional alignment design policy. So the idea is that corporations, if they create sentient machines, should create them so that it's obvious to users that they're sentient...Show More
2) Raphaël Millière on large language models
“Ultimately, if you want more human-like systems that exhibit more human-like intelligence, you would want them to actually learn like humans do by interacting with the world and so interactive learni...Show More
3) Matti Wilks on human-animal interaction and moral circle expansion
“Speciesism being socially learned is probably our most dominant theory of why we think we're getting the results that we're getting. But to be very clear, this is super early research. We h...Show More
4) David Gunkel on robot rights
“Robot rights are not the same thing as a set of human rights. Human rights are very specific to a singular species, the human being. Robots may have some overlapping powers, claims, privileges, or im...Show More
5) Kurt Gray on human-robot interaction and mind perception
What's it like to be a bat? And people are like, I don't know, it's fun. I'm like, flying around eating mosquitoes, like squeaking. It's like, no, no, you're imagining if...Show More
6) Thomas Metzinger on a moratorium on artificial sentience development
And for an applied ethics perspective, I think the most important thing is if we want to minimize suffering in the world, and if we want to minimize animal suffering, we should always, err on the side...Show More
7) Tobias Baumann of the Center for Reducing Suffering on global priorities research and effective strategies to reduce suffering
“We think that the most important thing right now is capacity building. We’re not so much focused on having impact now or in the next year, we’re thinking about the long term and the very big picture…...Show More
8) Tobias Baumann of the Center for Reducing Suffering on moral circle expansion, cause prioritization, and reducing risks of astronomical suffering in the long-term future
“If some beings are excluded from moral consideration then the results are usually quite bad, as evidenced by many forms of both current and historical suffering… I would definitely say that those th...Show More
9) Jo Anderson of Faunalytics and Saulius Šimčikas of Rethink Priorities on research for effective animal advocacy
We [Faunalytics] put out a lot of things in 2020. Some of the favorites that I [Jo] have, probably top of the list, I’m really excited about our animal product impact scales, where we did a lot of bac...Show More
10) Ajay Dahiya of The Pollination Project on funding grassroots animal advocacy and inner transformation
“Why inner transformation, why these practices are also built into model: unless we root out the root cause of the issue, which is disconnection, which is a lack of understanding that we are interrela...Show More