AI Rights: Serious Debate or Satire? | Gen Z Diplomat Podcast 45

This episode is dedicated to my thoughts about machine rights.   

Looking at the progression of artificial intelligence, it’s clear that a point may come — indeed, it may already have passed — where wider society must grant an AI basic “human” rights.   

Machine rights are not granting rights to run-of-the-mill digital or physical. This is redundant and useless, a waste of time and money. If the machine is not affected by the way humans act or react towards it, then giving it a right does nothing. Machines that we ascribe sentience or consciousness to, even if they are imitating it, must be ascribed a moral status.   

Nick Bostrom brings up the Principle of Substrate Non-Discrimination, stating if two beings have the same functionality and the same conscious experience, and differ only in the substrate of their implementation, then they have the same moral status. In other words, if two entities are equally conscious, but one is carbon-based and one is silicon-based, the status of the two entities is identical, and should be treated and documented as such.   

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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence by Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky: 

https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/artificial-intelligence.pdf 

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