Digital minds governance: early scoping from expert interviews

Published on May 11, 2026 7:47 PM GMTWhat is digital minds governance?Researchers are increasingly asking whether AI systems could be conscious and have moral status. This work is important, but progress is slow: philosophers have been working on consciousness for centuries without consensus.Perhaps superintelligent AI will help us solve it one day. But in the meantime, we will have to make many consequential decisions about the future of technology on our own. Even as researchers continue to ma...