Eleos AI

Full paper: https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00286-4

Read the post here . Note: This is also posted on Robert Long's  Substack . Intro Last week, Anthropic  announced  that its newest language models, Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, can now shut down certain conversations with users. The announcement explains that Anthropic gave Claude this ability “as part of our exploratory work on potential AI welfare”. This means that, for the first time, a major AI...

Read the post here . Intro In April and May 2025, Eleos AI Research conducted a limited welfare evaluation of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 before its release. We explored Claude’s expressions about consciousness, well-being, and preferences, using automated single-turn interviews and extended manual conversations. A summary of our findings appears in section 5.3 of the  Claude 4 System Card . We cond...

Please read the original, full post here . Full text Eleos commends Anthropic model welfare efforts Eleos AI Research congratulates Kyle Fish and Anthropic on their announcement of a new research program to investigate potential AI consciousness and welfare. We hope that they will continue to invest in this area, and urge other frontier labs to follow Anthropic's lead. BERKELEY, CA – April 24,...

Read the blog post here . Intro As AI systems become more sophisticated, understanding and addressing their potential welfare becomes increasingly important. At Eleos AI Research, we've identified five key research priorities: developing concrete welfare interventions, establishing human-AI cooperation frameworks, leveraging AI progress to advance welfare research, creating standardized welfar...

Please read the paper here . Authors: Felix J Binder, James Chua, Tomek Korbak, Henry Sleight, John Hughes, Robert Long, Ethan Perez, Miles Turpin, and Owain Evans Abstract Humans acquire knowledge by observing the external world, but also by introspection. Introspection gives a person privileged access to their current state of mind (e.g., thoughts and feelings) that is not accessible to external...

Read the paper here . Note about this draft - 27 January 2025: Prior to the launch of Eleos AI Research, Robert Long wrote this document in order to communicate his views about AI welfare to his collaborators—to Kyle Fish, who was working closely with Rob at the time and provided extensive input on this document; and more broadly, to others interested inworking on AI welfare.

Read the paper here . Summary AI companies and other decision-makers increasingly face decisions about the welfare and moral status of AI systems. This document outlines key strategic considerations that guide near-term action on AI welfare while maintaining focus on long-term outcomes. The intended audience of this paper is those who are interested in thinking concretely about what actions might...

Read the paper here and a summary here Authors: Robert Long and Jeff Sebo (lead), with Patrick Butlin, Kathleen Finlinson, Kyle Fish, Jacqueline Harding, Jacob Pfau, Toni Sims, Jonathan Birch, and David Chalmers Abstract In this report, we argue that there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future. That means that the prospect of A...

Please read the paper here . Authors: Patrick Butlin, Robert Long, Eric Elmoznino, Yoshua Bengio, Jonathan Birch, Axel Constant, George Deane, Stephen M. Fleming, Chris Frith, Xu Ji, Ryota Kanai, Colin Klein, Grace Lindsay, Matthias Michel, Liad Mudrik, Megan A. K. Peters, Eric Schwitzgebel, Jonathan Simon, and Rufin VanRullen Abstract Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is...

Please read the paper here . Abstract As AI systems become more advanced and widely deployed, there will likely be increasing debate over whether AI systems could have conscious experiences, desires, or other states of potential moral significance. It is important to inform these discussions with empirical evidence to the extent possible. We argue that under the right circumstances, self-reports,...

At Eleos AI, we are interested in better understanding potential AI sentience, moral patienthood, and welfare—and in making recommendations for concrete action. To make AI development go well, we not only need to improve our assessments of AI welfare, we also need to devise and evaluate interventions to protect and promote (potential) AI welfare. This working paper reviews several AI welfare inter...