Can Machines Have Moral Status? | AI Ethics, Rights & Consciousness — Transcript
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- 0:00Can a machine have mor status? It sounds absurd until you ask what moral status actually means.
- 0:06It means your pain counts, your interests count. Decisions that affect you require justification.
- 0:13We granted to humans instinctively. We extend it cautiously to animals.
- 0:18But the criteria were never really about biology. They were always about this. Can you suffer?
- 0:25Can you want something? Can something be done against your interest?
- 0:30Now we building machines that remember your name, that notice when you are sad,
- 0:36that form something that looks remarkably like attachment. So the question returns, not as a
- 0:42science fiction as philosophy. Can a machine have moral status? Tell me where you stand.
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