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Digital minds may deserve moral status without humanlike consciousness
Digital minds may deserve moral status without humanlike consciousness
Bostrom argues that sentience would be sufficient for moral status but may not be necessary, since persistent goals, a conception of self, or reciprocal relationships could independently create moral obligations toward digital minds.
- Interview
- Worries About AI Existential Risk Just Became More Concrete - Nick Bostrom and Alex Kantrowitz
- Speaker
- Nick Bostrom
- Topic
- Digital Minds
- Source timestamp
- 49:18
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