person
David Deutsch
Oxford physicist; pioneer of quantum computing
Oxford physicist who proposed the universal quantum computer in 1985. Author of 'The Beginning of Infinity'; argues general intelligences are people in the moral sense and AI x-risk framings misread the open-ended nature of explanatory knowledge.
current Visiting Professor of Physics, University of Oxford
Strategy positions
Moral circle expansionendorses
Treat AGIs as people whose creation extends rather than threatens humanityArgues AGIs will be people in the morally relevant sense, that creating them is part of the open-ended growth of knowledge, and that doom narratives mistake this for a control problem.
AGIs will be people. That has been a problem, and a feature, of every previous era of artificial intelligence: the issue is not 'how do we control them' but how we behave toward beings whose creativity is comparable to our own.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.