“Given the scale of the review required, and the need to assess each case, we expect this work will take months to complete.”
If it’ll take months to review what the AIs got up to months ago, what does that say about our ability to understand what AI gets up to now or in the future?
We don’t understand consciousness anywhere near well enough to definitely say whether AIs are or are not sentient. Even if we think the chance is small, getting this wrong could be catastrophic. I think this stance is irresponsible and bad