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Why treat AI models well?

What happens when we're uncertain if AI deserves moral consideration? Anthropic researcher Amanda Askell explains why treating AI models well matters.

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Dec 9, 20250mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. AA

    If it's not very high cost to treat models well, then I kinda think that we should. I think it does something bad to us to kind of like treat entities in the world that look very human-like badly. Uh-

  2. SP

    Like kicking over a robot.

  3. AA

    Yeah. There's a sense in which every future model is going to be learning what is like a, a, a really interesting fact about humanity, namely when we encounter this entity where we're, like, kind of completely uncertain, do we do the right thing and actually just try to treat it well or do we not? And that's, like, a question that we're all kind of collectively answering in how we interact with models

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