person

Henry Shevlin

Cambridge LCFI; AI consciousness philosopher

Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence philosopher specialising in AI moral status and digital minds. Co-organised the 2024 'Taking AI Welfare Seriously' report.

current Director of Research and Programmes, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI), Cambridge

@Hen_Shev

Strategy positions

AI welfareendorses

Model welfare/moral status is a primary consideration

Argues AI moral status is a live question that frontier labs and governments need to take seriously now, not later.

We may be on the verge of creating moral patients without the ethical frameworks to know how to treat them.

¶ articleHenry Shevlin, LCFI· LCFI Cambridge· 2024· loose paraphrase

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Anil Seth
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Blake Lemoine
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Brian Tomasik
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Christof Koch
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Daniel Dennett
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.