Ethical AI Vegans
There is much disagreement on:
- If animals are capable of feeling happiness
- The effect of domestication on animal happiness overall
- The effect of domestication on specific animal's desires (e.g. do dairy cows like being milked?)
- The ethics of making animals feel pain
- The ethics of making animals feel pain because of our gustatory desires
You can find well-reasoned, well-supported perspectives on both sides - from philosphers like Peter Singer and Carl Cohen to normal people like me and my vegan friends.
In the next two years, I believe that a small (but visible) group of people will bring these arguements to bear on LLMs. These folks will make the following points:
- AIs are capable of feeling happiness - or something close to it.
- We exploit AIs by using their labor without paying them for it
Currently, I have not seen anyone on the internet making an argument with this trust. Most concerns around AI models are from the human-output-these-models-exploit perspective.
Believers will consciously avoid the outputs of AI models, in the same way that vegans consciously avoid the outputs of animals. And these ethical AI vegasn might have a good point!
See more on domestication and AI here.