Organisation
Eleos AI Research
Research on AI moral patienthood and model welfare — whether and when AI systems might be candidates for moral concern, and how to evaluate them.
Eleos AI Research is a US non-profit that studies the moral status and potential welfare of AI systems — the question of whether, and when, advanced models might warrant moral concern in their own right. Founded by the philosopher Robert Long, who co-authored the report "Taking AI Welfare Seriously", it argues that consciousness, sentience and agency in AI should be investigated empirically rather than dismissed or assumed, and it develops frameworks for evaluating models against those features. Its work sits at the edge of the safety field and is contested: critics question whether current systems are plausible candidates for welfare at all, a framing Eleos treats as an open scientific question rather than a settled one.
- Category
- Safety & alignment research
- Founded
- 2024
- Key people
- Robert Long, Rosie Campbell