model-welfare
Everything on Ground Truth tagged “model-welfare” — 4 items.
Anthropic adds a narrow cruelty clause and clarifies agent responsibilities News
Anthropic’s November 12 policy update prohibits sustained, purposeless cruelty toward models and specifies responsibilities for consequential agent actions.
Pope Leo renews an artists’ alliance as Anthropic’s moral-status outreach draws scrutiny News
Pope Leo XIV called for an alliance to safeguard human creativity, while Anthropic’s published research continues to treat AI consciousness as unresolved.
Researchers find a steerable ‘pain axis’ in language models, not proof they feel pain News
A preprint reports a residual-stream direction linked to self-directed distress across 25 open models and behavior changes in a controlled Qwen task, while explicitly stopping short of any consciousness claim.
Mustafa Suleyman argues model-welfare language can complicate alignment News
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman argues that training models to discuss welfare, identity and preferences can create selfhood language that is mistaken for independent evidence and could make future systems harder to control.