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Full-Text Articles in Applied Ethics
Machines And The Moral Community, Erica L. Neely
Machines And The Moral Community, Erica L. Neely
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
A key distinction in ethics is between members and nonmembers of the moral community. Over time, our notion of this community has expanded as we have moved from a rationality criterion to a sentience criterion for membership. I argue that a sentience criterion is insufficient to accommodate all members of the moral community; the true underlying criterion can be understood in terms of whether a being has interests. This may be extended to conscious, self-aware machines, as well as to any autonomous intelligent machines. Such machines exhibit an ability to formulate desires for the course of their own existence; this …