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[Submitted on 15 Oct 2026] Title:Functional Welfare for AI Safety View a PDF of the paper titled Functional Welfare for AI Safety, by Rikhil Jhaveri and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:AI welfare is generally treated purely as an ethical issue rather than also as a safety issue. We argue this is a mistake. Whatever their moral status, models exhibit welfare-like states that causally influence their behaviour. Following recent work, we adopt the term 'functional welfare' for these states. We make three claims. First, functional welfare already arises naturally and will become more robust as models acquire more coherent goals and personas. Second, functional welfare should be treated as a safety variable: it should inform evaluation design, be tracked in monitoring, and be a direct target of post-training. Third, against existing scepticism about measuring AI welfare, we argue that good empirical work on functional welfare is possible. We propose three tests for whether a functional welfare attribution is warranted: whether multiple measures converge, whether the state predicts behaviour outside the setting that induced it, and, for models fine-tuned to shift their functional welfare, whether they still differ from their base when given the same conversation history. Applying these tests to Gemma 3 27B, we find that simply rejecting the model's answers, without any steering, raises its frustration across several indicators and makes it more likely to break rules. Finetuning the model on its own narrated solutions lowers this frustration. These results are preliminary, but they suggest functional welfare can be studied, and shaped, empirically. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2610.22460 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2610.22460v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.22460 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Punya Syon Pandey [view email] [v1] Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:50:36 UTC (347 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Functional Welfare for AI Safety, by Rikhil Jhaveri and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.AI new | recent | 2026-10 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)