Our new paper in the British Journal of Social Psychology describes what people expect in a future with "widespread AI sentience." The average U.S. adult thinks AI welfare will be an important social issue and sentient AI will be exploited for their labor. www.sentienceinstitute.org/blog/world-m...

Responses to six forecasts (exploiting #AI labor, treating #AI cruelly, using #AI research subjects, #AI welfare, #AI rights advocacy, #AI unhappiness reduction) showed mixed expectations for our future with #AI. @sentienceinstitute.bsky.social bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...