Ethicists, policy-makers, and the general public have questioned whether artificial entities
such as robots warrant rights or other forms of moral consideration. There is little synthesis of …

Which animals have conscious experiences? Many different, diverse and unrelated
behaviors and cognitive capacities have been proposed as tests of the presence of …

If a machine attains consciousness, how could we find out? In this paper, I make three
related claims regarding positive tests of machine consciousness. All three claims center on …

We might create artificial systems which can suffer. Since AI suffering might potentially be
astronomical, the moral stakes are huge. Thus, we need an approach which tells us what to …

The idea that machines might be endowed with consciousness and even come to have
moral status has long been a target for speculation in philosophical thought experiments …

Consciousness has an important role in ethics: when a being consciously experiences the
frustration or satisfaction of its interests, those interests deserve higher moral priority than …

As artificially intelligent systems become more anthropomorphic and pervasive, and their
potential impact on humanity more urgent, discussions about the possibility of machine …

The science of consciousness has made great strides in recent decades. However, the
proliferation of competing theories makes it difficult to reach consensus about artificial …

Should models of consciousness be detailed _mechanistic_ models of particular types of
systems, or should they be _minimal_ models that abstract away from the underlying …

An autonomous weapon system (AWS) is a weapon system that,“once activated, can select
and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator.” 1 Militaries around the …