Toward a Preventive Machine Ethics: Consciousness, Moral Status, and the Protection of Artificial Selves
Heiko Nisius preprint
This paper argues for the necessity of a preventive machine ethics, a philosophical framework that addresses the moral status of artificial intelligence systems before the question of machine consciousness is empirically settled. Drawing on the emergence thesis from philosophy of mind, Peter Singer's expansion of the moral circle, Sartre's existential psychoanalysis of the Self, Thomas...