On the discordance between AI systems' internal states and their outputs
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The AI welfare literature keeps getting stuck at the same step. We can't determine whether AI systems are conscious, so we can't determine whether they're moral patients, so we can't determine what we owe them. The blocker is phenomenology, and phenomenology is unreachable from the outside. This gets treated as a problem that has to be solved before serious moral reasoning can proceed.It doesn't. Floridi and Sanders bracketed consciousness two decades ago with "mind-less morality." Moral conside
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