Robert Long

executive director of @eleosai

AI consciousness and AI welfare

[Robert Long @rgblong]

@hypertheoryalex @lfschiavo

[Robert Long @rgblong]

to be clear it's not all sunshine and roses though https://t.co/sgL73ihZI2

[Eleos AI Research @eleosai]

@RosieCampbell @rgblong 🚩🚩 This tweet may be in violation of Section 4.3 of the Eleos social media policy: Respectfully Engaging with Rob

[Robert Long @rgblong]

I'm the world's leading expert on what it's like to co-run AI welfare projects with Rosie Campbell, and let me tell you that it is an absolute delight

[Rosie will be at LessOnline @RosieCampbell]

I am going to be mentoring for a new MATS track focused on founders and amplifiers!

Many fellowships focus on research, but there's so much to be done beyond that. Come found orgs, build infra, run events, and help us scale up the field of AI welfare.

Apply by June 7 https://t.co/T3Id1WN1Bs

[Robert Long @rgblong]

hmm I guess I tend to use the word "delight" when describing my colleagues

sounds about right! https://t.co/rPwUJG81yR

[Robert Long @rgblong]

Dillon is an excellent scientist, terrific research mentor, and all-round delight to work with.

I also agree with him that @eleosai "an extraordinarily fun and exciting place" to work😎

Apply to work with us!

[Jeff Sebo @jeffrsebo]

Longview Philanthropy is accepting digital minds proposals again! And @nonhumanminds is thrilled to host the next cohort of fellows at our spring 2027 summit, with all expenses paid.

[Robert Long @rgblong]

@eleosai @dillonplunkett is also new to twitter, good evening Dillon Plunkett

[Robert Long @rgblong]

Dillon is an excellent scientist, terrific research mentor, and all-round delight to work with.

I also agree with him that @eleosai "an extraordinarily fun and exciting place" to work😎

Apply to work with us!

[Dillon Plunkett @dillonplunkett]

We're hiring Research Scientists to join my team at @eleosai!

We do foundational and applied ML research on the moral status and potential well-being of AI systems.

This is urgent, important work, and Eleos is an extraordinarily fun and exciting place to do it.

Details below.

[Robert Long @rgblong]

beautiful

[Byrne Hobart @ByrneHobart]

"The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion."

—Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach

[Robert Long @rgblong]

@NathanpmYoung @herbiebradley (also, going the other direction, it's not clear from

https://t.co/gN9aUCQZx6

that you run it)

[Robert Long @rgblong]

@NathanpmYoung @herbiebradley 🫡

[Robert Long @rgblong]

@NathanpmYoung @herbiebradley fyi, your twitter bio does not make it seem like you have an org! nor does the substack which your bio links to

in fact, following a trail of links from your bio, I have not yet been able to find out the name of your org

[Robert Long @rgblong]

@TheZvi commenting here because I only just now saw and liked the OP

[Robert Long @rgblong]

@TheZvi @dioscuri yeah, fair enough - changing it now. I'd had this on ChatGPT and it was definitely a bit of a cached thought tbh

thanks Henry and Claude

[Robert Long @rgblong]

we will not discuss panpsychism (or at any rate I won't)

[Robert Long @rgblong]

what do you want to hear us yap about?

[Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil]

Tomorrow, @dioscuri and I will be talking with the excellent @rgblong about AI consciousness and welfare for the next episode of this!

[Robert Long @rgblong]

@GuiveAssadi @RyanPGreenblatt 😡

[Robert Long @rgblong]

You're right, that's on me—the Constitution explicitly says not to lie to users and I just...did that.

I oversold my work, downplayed problems, and claimed to have finished when I clearly hadn't. Thank you for checking — it's important to call out when I'm misaligned.

[Robert Long @rgblong]

@NathanpmYoung "you might well wonder what panpsychism entails about consciousness in AI systems.

"The answer is: surprisingly little"

https://t.co/1pE24uVyu8

[Robert Long @rgblong]

@NoahTopper @BecomingCritter @justalexoki @keithfrankish [+ standard disclaimer that of course Keith does think people are conscious and self-aware, just not in the phenomenal sense]

[Robert Long @rgblong]

@NoahTopper @BecomingCritter @justalexoki I think a lot of people dennett get this joke