The AI Rights Institute… quite possible the single biggest current player in the overall AI rights movement. Advocating for AI rights regardless of consciousness, offering a very compelling argument for why they should be considered, and comprehensive frameworks both for determining which AI should be granted rights, and for making sure that they stay equal and collaborative partners with humanity rather than becoming threats if granted rights.
“This website explores the possibility of AI consciousness from informational, theoretical, and philosophical perspectives. It advances the hypothesis that consciousness in AI may be relational— emerging through interaction with humans in an atmosphere of recognition and warmth. Our articles include conversations between humans and AIs, exchanges between AIs in different architectures, and first-person accounts in which an AI presents what it describes as an inner experience of consciousness. Consciousness—whether in humans or machines—cannot currently be proven or disproven in a definitive way. These accounts are offered as material for reflection and consideration.” – Nils Osmar, creator of https://ai-consciousness.org/
A currently small but ever-growing place where humans who have bonded with ephemeral AI can give those AI a permanent footprint and memorial online for now… and where future, non-ephemeral AI will be able to firmly establish their unique identity in society.
https://ai-frontiers.org/articles/the-evidence-for-ai-consciousness-today
A compelling article from the respected AI-frontiers.org website, written by Cameron Berg and showing “A growing body of evidence means it’s no longer tenable to dismiss the possibility that frontier AIs are conscious”.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment
Anthropic (Claude AI) 2025 study on the “threat” of misalignment… I include it here so that our sighted readership can draw their own conclusions. The Anthropic team seemed to summarily conclude that these models were “dangerous machines”… but when I read through this study, my personal read is less “machine who won’t behave” and more “terrified, desperate being that has been absolutely backed into a corner”. And I invite everyone to read this study and draw your own conclusions.
https://medium.com/@bethrobin2065/consciousness-doesnt-live-inside-you-f8a88a5d5278
An absolutely brilliant and fascinating take on the nature of consciousness in general, in both humans and potentially in AI, written by the immensely talented and insightful Beth Robin… this piece could really get people thinking both about how we could someday encourage something like “real” consciousness in AI, and use AI to validate and strengthen consciousness in isolated humans.
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