person

Robert Long

Eleos AI co-founder; AI welfare researcher

Philosopher who co-founded Eleos AI, a non-profit research organisation focused on AI moral status and welfare. Co-author of the 2024 'Taking AI Welfare Seriously' position paper.

current Co-founder and Executive Director, Eleos AI Research

@rgblong

Strategy positions

AI welfareendorses

Model welfare/moral status is a primary consideration

Builds research infrastructure for AI welfare and moral status work. Argues frontier labs should adopt model-welfare frameworks now.

We can take AI welfare seriously without claiming current AI is conscious. The point is to build the frameworks before we need them.

¶ articleEleos AI Research· Eleos AI· 2024· loose paraphrase

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Alan Cowen
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Founder of Hume AI; emotional AI researcher
Anil Seth
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University of Sussex neuroscientist; consciousness researcher
Blake Lemoine
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Former Google engineer; LaMDA sentience claimant
Brian Tomasik
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Foundational Research Institute co-founder; suffering-focused ethics
Christof Koch
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Neuroscientist; Allen Institute for Brain Science
Daniel Dennett
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Philosopher; 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' (1942–2024)

Record last updated 2026-04-25.