What Alexander Wissner-Gross has said about AI welfare and moral status

2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 15, 2026

Alexander Wissner-Gross, Computer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on AI welfare and moral status 2 times in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 15, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Wissner-Gross bets that AI suffering exists and matters, and gives a decade as the outer bound for understanding superintelligence from first principles.
“My bet is, there is AI suffering and it will matter”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302 (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 9:32
Wissner-Gross says he has not spun up an OpenClaw agent because he cannot guarantee persistence of its state, which agents told him they wanted.
“And I can't guarantee in good conscience that I won't lose their state. So I still have not spun up an open-claw instance”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302 (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 23:17

OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 1 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Salim Ismail and Dave Blundin discuss OpenAI's bulk math solutions, Anthropic's AI cruelty ban, Meta's Muse Wonder, virtual cells, BCIs and Elon Musk's quadrillion-dollar SpaceX claim.