This is a very thoughtful comment, which I appreciate. Such cultural shifts aren't taken enough into account usually. 

That said, I agree with @Holly_Elmore comment, that this approach is more risky if artificial sentience has overall negative lives - something we really don't have enough good information on. 

Once powerful AIs are widely used everywhere, it will be much harder to backtrack if it turns out that they don't have good lives (same for factory farming today).

For reference, I attended the workshop, and found it useful 🙂

It's nice to have a place to train to get better at communicating.

What we gathered so far is that several scientific papers mention this topic, as well as several large members of the industry itself, which consider it to be important, although there is limited data to inform with a high degree of certainty how to properly inform adequate decision-making on this topic. 

For this reason, and since we have limited expertise on this topic, this is currently beyond what we will write about.

Thanks a lot!

Thank you again for everything!