Eric Schwitzgebel introduces a preprint (37 page PDF) in which he considers whether AI will force us to reconsider the 'human-centered' approaches to ethics. It's not fundamentally different from the argument Peter Singer makes with respect to animals, to my mind. Along with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Schwitzgebel critiques "three recent books that address the moral standing of non-human animals and AI systems: Jonathan Birch's The Edge of Sentience, Jeff Sebo's The Moral Circle, and Webb Keane's Animals, Robots, Gods." He writes, "All three argue that many nonhuman animals and artificial entities will or might deserve much greater moral consideration than they typically receive, and that public policy, applied ethical reasoning, and everyday activities might need to significantly change." I also agree with this, though it's the sort of thing that Must Not Be Said.
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