Simulacra Welfare: Meet Clark

AI welfare has been a hot topic recently. There have been a few efforts to research, or improve, the apparent well-being of AI systems; most notably, Anthropic's allowing chatbots to end abusive conversations . While I'm in favor of this research area overall, I'm concerned that current approaches are confused, and in such a way that could ultimately be detrimental to the well-being of AI systems.…