How much AI suffering matters does not depend (much) on how we count AI systems

Published on August 29, 2026 7:29 AM GMTLeonard Dung Confidence: I am confident in the part explaining why questions of AI identity are not quite as important as one may think. I am somewhat less confident in the brief thoughts about how to count/individuate constituents of AI suffering - the philosophical issues there are complex and little explored. I am unsure how common the view I object to really is. The central case for thinking that the risk of creating AI systems that can suffer (e.g. ar...