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The end of history and the last job
Artificial intelligence may make economies richer while eroding jobs, wages and purpose. The essay examines who benefits from automation and argues democratic institutions must shape how its gains are shared. More
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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. More
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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. More