> We will have the same moral obligations to them as we have to each other.
Why? Where this assumption comes from?
I'm a materialist. I don't believe that there is a 'soul'. I believe our brains are Turing complete computers running software.
What is special about each of us is the unique software that we are running. That is what I feel a moral obligation to, and I don't see any reason why a silicon based computer couldn't run similar software, couldn't become intelligent and couldn't become conscious.
Therefore I would feel the same moral obligations to a silicon based AGI.
What is special about each of us is the unique software that we are running. That is what I feel a moral obligation to, and I don't see any reason why a silicon based computer couldn't run similar software, couldn't become intelligent and couldn't become conscious.
Therefore I would feel the same moral obligations to a silicon based AGI.
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