Topic
AI Welfare
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What We Might Owe Our Robots
Could an AI-powered robot dog—or any sufficiently sophisticated artificial system—ever deserve moral consideration? This essay examines physicalism, functionalism and the capacities that might ground machine moral status.
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Could Machines Have Moral Status?
This dissertation asks whether machines could possess moral status and compares two leading accounts: Peter Singer’s unitarian view, grounded in the capacity to suffer, and Shelly Kagan’s hierarchical capacities view.