期刊
CAMBRIDGE QUARTERLY OF HEALTHCARE ETHICS
卷 30, 期 3, 页码 459-471出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180120001012
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AI; moral patiency; artificial suffering; robot rights
This paper addresses the question of whether artificial intelligence should be considered as having moral status and introduces the cognitive equivalence strategy as a way to determine psychological moral patiency. The author suggests that artificial systems should be considered psychological moral patients if they possess cognitive mechanisms shared with other beings whom we also consider as psychological moral patients.
There is growing interest in machine ethics in the question of whether and under what circumstances an artificial intelligence would deserve moral consideration. This paper explores a particular type of moral status that the author terms psychological moral patiency, focusing on the epistemological question of what sort of evidence might lead us to reasonably conclude that a given artificial system qualified as having this status. The paper surveys five possible criteria that might be applied: intuitive judgments, assessments of intelligence, the presence of desires and autonomous behavior, evidence of sentience, and behavioral equivalence. The author suggests that despite its limitations, the latter approach offers the best way forward, and defends a variant of that, termed the cognitive equivalence strategy. In short, this holds that an artificial system should be considered a psychological moral patient to the extent that it possesses cognitive mechanisms shared with other beings such as nonhuman animals whom we also consider to be psychological moral patients.
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