Time to be a doomsayer! If technology continues on its current trajectory, we will soon be facing a moral catastrophe. We will create AI systems that some people reasonably regard as deserving human or humanlike rights. But there won’t be consensus on this view. Other people will reasonably regard these systems as wholly undeserving of human or humanlike […]
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