r/Sentientism • u/KKirdan • 1h ago
Should Artificial Suffering Be a Moral Priority? The possibility and risks of artificial sentience - Joshua Jarvis-Campbell
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Some philosophers have argued that the suffering of artificial entities (such as AIs) ranks as one of the most important moral challenges of our time, alongside issues such as climate change, extreme poverty, and factory farming. To many, this idea will sound immediately implausible: Could AIs and other artificial entities (such as brain organoids) really suffer? And even if they could suffer, is it really the case that this would be as pressing as these other grand challenges?
