If you're interested in contributing to this space, you should check out the SPAR AI welfare projects!
Some of them include:
Larissa Schiavo, Jeff Sebo, and Toni Sims on: Should We Give AIs a Wallet? Toward a Framework for AI Economic Rights
Jeff Sebo, Diana Mocanu, Visa Kurki, and Toni Sims on: Preparing for AI Legal Personhood: Ethical, Legal, and Political Considerations
Arvo Munoz Moran on: Exploring Bayesian methods for modelling AI consciousness in light of state-of-the-art evidence and literature
Check them out and others here: sparai.org/projects/sp26
Friendly reminder that there's only 1 day left to apply for this upcoming round of SPAR!
Apply by January 14 to join our largest round yet — 130+ projects with mentors from Google DeepMind, RAND, UK AISI, Apollo Research, SecureBio, MIRI, and more!
This is likely the only SPAR round until fall later this year.
Work on a part-time AI safety, AI policy, AI security, or biosecurity project. Open to students & professionals; prior research experience not required for all projects.
Check out open projects and apply here