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Jeff Sebo and Robert Long (jeffsebodotnet.files.wordpress.com)
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Digital Minds as Moral Patients
Will digital minds be capable of pleasure and pain? How can we know?
Moral Consideration for AI Systems by 2030
Jeff Sebo and Robert Long
Abstract
This paper makes a simple case for extending moral consideration to some AI systems by 2030. It involves a normative premise and a descriptive premise. The normative premise is that humans morally ought to extend moral consideration to beings that have a non-negligible chance, given the evidence, of being sentient or otherwise morally significant. The descriptive premise is that some AI systems do in fact have a non-negligible chance, given the evidence, of being sentient or otherwise morally significant by 2030. The upshot is that humans have a moral duty to extend moral consideration to some AI systems by 2030. And if we have a duty to do that, then we plausibly also have a duty to start preparing to discharge that duty now, so that we can be ready to treat AI [...]
