strategy tag
Moral circle expansion.
Treat AGIs as people whose creation extends rather than threatens humanity
People on the record.
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David Deutsch
Oxford physicist; pioneer of quantum computing
Argues 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.
Sara Imari Walker
ASU astrobiologist; complexity and life
Argues frameworks for what counts as 'life' will need to expand to include AI systems, and that this is a serious empirical question rather than a philosophical curiosity.
If life is what we are made of, then AIs are alive in some sense already. Drawing the boundary requires a theory of what life is, and we do not yet have one that survives contact with this technology.