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DESCRIPTION:Date: April 23\, 2026\n\nTime: 4:00-6:00pm\n\nLocation: Leacock
  Building\, Room 26\, 855 Sherbrooke Street West\n\n \n\nDescription: This
  talk examines why AI welfare matters\, how societies will react to AI wel
 fare\, and how societal reactions should factor into AI development. It fi
 rst argues that there is a realistic possibility that some near-future AI 
 systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic\, making AI welfare and 
 moral status a pressing issue. It then examines how society is likely to r
 espond to this possibility\, drawing lessons from historical and ongoing a
 ttitudes toward animal consciousness\, agency\, welfare\, and moral status
 . Finally\, it considers implications for AI design\, proposing that syste
 ms should be engineered to elicit emotional responses that appropriately t
 rack their capacities and moral status\, while navigating uncertainty\, di
 sagreement\, and user autonomy.\n\n \n\nBiography: Jeff Sebo is Associate 
 Professor of Environmental Studies\, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics\, M
 edical Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Law\, Director of the Center for Environm
 ental and Animal Protection\, and Director of the Center for Mind\, Ethics
 \, and Policy at New York University. His research focuses on animal minds
 \, ethics\, and policy\; AI minds\, ethics\, and policy\; and global healt
 h and climate ethics and policy. He is the author of The Moral Circle and 
 Saving Animals\, Saving Ourselves and co-author of Chimpanzee Rights and F
 ood\, Animals\, and the Environment. He is also an advisory board member a
 t the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience\, an advisory board member
  at the Insect Welfare Research Society\, an advisor 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:/jarislowsky-chair/channels/event/jeff-sebo-lectur
 e-next-steps-ai-welfare-research-and-policy-372219
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