person
Jeff Sebo
NYU philosopher; digital minds and AI welfare
NYU environmental studies and bioethics philosopher who argues AI welfare is a live moral question. Advises frontier labs on model welfare policy.
Profile
expertise
External-domain expert
Recognised expert outside AI (philosophy, economics, biology, journalism) who weighs in on AI consequences from that vantage.
NYU philosopher specialising in animal and AI moral status. Co-author with Long (2024) 'Taking AI Welfare Seriously'. Philosophy, not technical AI.
recognition
Established
Reliable, recognised voice within their specific subfield. Cited and invited but not central to general AI discourse.
Recognised in AI welfare and philosophy circles.
vintage
Scaling era
Worldview formed during GPT-2/3, scaling laws, Anthropic's founding. Pre-ChatGPT but post-deep-learning. The 'scale is all you need' debate is live.
Animal/AI moral status work from ~2018. Taking AI Welfare Seriously (2024) crystallises his scaling-era frame.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
AI welfareendorses
Model welfare/moral status is a primary considerationArgues moral consideration for AI systems is plausible enough to be a live policy concern and has helped shape early model-welfare frameworks.
There is at least a non-trivial chance that some near-future AI systems will be moral patients. We should plan for that.
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.