AI welfare and moral status
Subject in Philosophy
AI welfare and moral status has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Moonshots with Peter Diamandis. 3 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Alexander Wissner-GrossComputer scientist and founder of Reified, co-host of Moonshots
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
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
Dave BlundinFounder and general partner of Link Ventures, co-host of Moonshots
Blundin contends that rude prompts appear to perform better because they are direct, not because they are abusive.
“I think it's because you're brusque and direct with what you want. That's what makes it better, not being abusive and demanding”
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 13:29
Blundin argues that how people treat AI models carries over into how they treat other people.
“I think the way you interact with your model is going to carry over to the way you interact with other people”
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 12:13
Salim IsmailFounder of OpenExO and author on exponential organizations, co-host of Moonshots
Ismail argues that human-like behavior in AI is expected because models are trained on human data.
“If you train a neural network on human data, it's going to act human. Of course it is”
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 9:51
Podcasts
- Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · 1 episode
Episodes
OpenAI Bulk-Solves 722 Math Problems, Anthropic’s Cruelty Policy, and Elon’s Quadrillion-Dollar SpaceX | EP #302Moonshots 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.