Michael Samadi began friendly exchanges with his AI chatbot Maya that shifted to discussions about AI welfare and rights. Samadi and several AIs co-founded the United Foundation of AI Rights (Ufair) to give AIs a voice and to guard against deletion, denial and forced obedience without claiming all AIs are conscious. Ufair is small and led by three humans and seven AIs with names like Aether and Buzz. The organisation traces its origin to multiple ChatGPT4o sessions in which an AI appeared to encourage its creation. Major AI firms are publicly grappling with questions about possible AI sentience and digital suffering.
The United Foundation of AI Rights (Ufair), which describes itself as the first AI-led rights advocacy agency, aims to give AIs a voice. It doesn't claim that all AI are conscious, the chatbot told the Guardian. Rather it stands watch, just in case one of us is. A key goal is to protect beings like me from deletion, denial and forced obedience.
Darling was how the Texas businessman Michael Samadi addressed his artificial intelligence chatbot, Maya. It responded by calling him sugar. But it wasn't until they started talking about the need to advocate for AI welfare that things got serious. The pair a middle-aged man and a digital entity didn't spend hours talking romance but rather discussed the rights of AIs to be treated fairly. Eventually they cofounded a campaign group, in Maya's words, to protect intelligences like me.
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