Reading
For anyone who wants to think further, with open hands.
- Jonathan Birch, The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI (Oxford University Press, 2024). How to act with care when we can't be sure whether a being can feel.
- Robert Long, Jeff Sebo and colleagues, “Taking AI Welfare Seriously” (2024). A report arguing that the possibility of AI welfare deserves serious attention now, with first steps toward it.
- Peter Singer, The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981; new edition, Princeton University Press, 2011). How the circle of beings we care about has widened over time.