Title
Why Care Practices Should Prioritize Living Beings Over AI: Critique of “AI Welfare”
Abstract
In this talk, I critique the growing “AI welfare” movement and propose the Precariousness Guideline to determine care entitlement. In contrast to approaches that emphasize potential for suffering, the Precariousness Guideline is grounded in objectively observable features. The severity of current planetwide biodiversity loss and climate change provide additional reasons to prioritize the needs of living beings.
About John
John is a postdoctoral researcher in AI Ethics and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science at the Czech Academy of the Sciences in Prague. Previously, he worked at the LMU at the Munich Interactive Intelligence Initiative. His research focuses on philosophical and scientific problems surrounding metacognition, as well as the influence of AI on metacognitive capacities.