Published on June 20, 2026 8:33 AM GMT This is a linkpost for the position paper AI Welfare Is Bullshit by Yunze Xiao, Gordon Dai, Shahan Ali Memon, Jen-tse Huang, Maarten Sap, and Mona Diab, whose preprint was published on 14 April 2026. The abstract is below. Here is summary of the paper from Yunze. "Comments, pushback, and counter-cases are welcome — especially from researchers actively building welfare benchmarks. The argument is meant to provoke a methodological standard, not to shut down i