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PublishedOctober 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Functional Welfare for AI Safety
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arXiv:2610.22460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI welfare is generally treated purely as an ethical issue rather than also as a safety issue. We argue this is a mistake. Whatever their moral status, models exhibit welfare-like states that causally influence their behaviour. Following recent work, w
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