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Thomas Metzinger on a moratorium on artificial sentience development

The Sentience Institute Podcast

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Is a Local Moratorium for Artificial Sentience Worth Pursuing?

Do you think that a local or partial moratorium for artificial sentience is still worthwhile to pursue if a global moratorium turns out to be infeasible? That's a very good question because I will have a contradict my pessimism. So I think it would be very valuable if there are one or two regions in the world that set a moral standard and function as a model. And other people could also see, okay, it doesn't really damage their profits. If they could demonstrate one can have high ethical standards and make money.

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