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Traditional debates about the moral status of Artificial Intelligence typically center around the question of whether such artificial beings are, or could in principle be, conscious. Those on both side of the debate typically assume that consciousness is a necessary condition for moral status. In this paper, I argue that this assumption is a mistake. I defend the claim that functionally sophisticated artificial intelligences might still be the appropriate objects of reactive attitudes, like love, and thus still be the appropriate objects of moral concern, even if they lack consciousness.While primarily concerned with the question of whether future AI could in principle have moral status, the paper also shows how this conclusion has important consequences for recent debates about the moral status of current Generative AI. |
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