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#633 - Peter Singer - Are You An Evil Person For Eating Meat?
Modern Wisdom
AI Ethics: Can There Be Conscious AI?
I'm organizing a conference at Princeton University in October, which will include that topic as well as talking about the impact that AI is having on animals. Some industrial farms are now being basically run by AI rather than by individual humans in the same way. Plus, of course, there's all these decisions that dilemmas about self-driving cars. So I have been involved in AI ethical questions. And my answer to the question you asked: could there be conscious AI? Could AI be a sentient being? And if so, what would it moral status be? The answer is in principle, AI could be sentient or conscious. But we haven't got close to that yet.
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