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Digital-mind ethics cannot simply copy human ethics
Digital-mind ethics cannot simply copy human ethics
Bostrom argues that digital minds could have fundamentally different needs, forms of continuity, and attitudes toward termination, requiring their ethical treatment to be reconsidered from first principles.
- Interview
- Worries About AI Existential Risk Just Became More Concrete - Nick Bostrom and Alex Kantrowitz
- Speaker
- Nick Bostrom
- Topic
- Digital Minds
- Source timestamp
- 50:27
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