Comment by kelnos

I would much rather people be thinking about this when the models/LLMs/AIs are not sentient or conscious, rather than wait until some hypothetical future date when they are, and have no moral or legal framework in place to deal with it. We constantly run into problems where laws and ethics are not up to the task of giving us guidelines on how to interact with, treat, and use the (often bleeding-edge) technology we have. This has been true since before I was born, and will likely always continue to be true. When people are interested in getting ahead of the problem, I think that's a good thing, even if it's not quite applicable yet.