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Jan Henrik Wasserziehr

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Are conscious machines valuers?

Ai & Society May 1, 2026 Jan Henrik Wasserziehr

Recent proposals in neuroscience and philosophy suggest that coarse-grained computational functionalism may suffice for artificial consciousness. However, I argue that even if such accounts are right, there is no reason to assume that consciousness so realised would, by default, be valenced. On a naturalistic conception of value, valence—the affective quality of subjective...