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DESCRIPTION:Next Steps for AI Welfare Research and Policy\n\nDate: April 23
 \, 2026\n\nTime: 4:00-6:00pm\n\nLocation: Leacock Building\, Room 26\, 855
  Sherbrooke Street West\n\nThis talk examines why AI welfare matters\, how
  societies will react to AI welfare\, and how societal reactions should fa
 ctor into AI development. It first argues that there is a realistic possib
 ility that some near-future AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly a
 gentic\, making AI welfare and moral status a pressing issue. It then exam
 ines how society is likely to respond to this possibility\, drawing lesson
 s from historical and ongoing attitudes toward animal consciousness\, agen
 cy\, welfare\, and moral status. Finally\, it considers implications for A
 I design\, proposing that systems should be engineered to elicit emotional
  responses that appropriately track their capacities and moral status\, wh
 ile navigating uncertainty\, disagreement\, and user autonomy.\n\nBiograph
 y\n\nJeff Sebo is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies\, Affiliate
 d Professor of Bioethics\, Medical Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Law\, Directo
 r of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection\, and Director of 
 the Center for Mind\, Ethics\, and Policy at New York University. His rese
 arch focuses on animal minds\, ethics\, and policy\; AI minds\, ethics\, a
 nd policy\; and global health and climate ethics and policy. He is the aut
 hor of The Moral Circle and Saving Animals\, Saving Ourselves and co-autho
 r of Chimpanzee Rights and Food\, Animals\, and the Environment. He is als
 o an advisory board member at the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentienc
 e\, an advisory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society\, an a
 dvisor at Eleos AI Research\, and a senior affiliate at the Institute for 
 Law & AI.\n
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LOCATION:Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855\, rue Sherbr
 ooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Jeff Sebo Lecture: Next Steps for AI Welfare Research and Policy
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/jarislowsky-chair/channels/event/jeff-sebo-lectur
 e-next-steps-ai-welfare-research-and-policy-372219
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