Philosopher Seth Lazar argues non-sentient AI could achieve moral personhood under a Rawlsian framework

New work! With @nedhw "Artificial Persons" Both advocates and skeptics of the moral status of AI systems have generally taken the question to turn on AI sentience. We present an alternative approach. On Rawls' political conception of the person (PCP), possession of the two…

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Atoosa Kasirzadeh@Dr_Atoosa 6 weeks ago

Looking forward to reading this paper! https://twitter.com/sethlazar/status/2075692001144746150

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Seth Lazar@sethlazar 6 weeks ago

A bit of backstory. This paper is really a product of my first interactions with GPT-4! I wrote about them back in 2023 in the NYT, but drew a different conclusion, thinking then that sentience *had* to be a necessary condition for personhood. But the more I picked away at the…

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Ryan Lowe@ryan_t_lowe 6 weeks ago

will almost certainly be a banger, excited to read https://twitter.com/sethlazar/status/2075692001144746150

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