17. Soenke Ziesche: Does Moral Concern Require AI to be Conscious?

Soenke is the author of Digital Minds 1.0: AI Welfare, Ethics, and Beyond and co-author of Considerations on the AI Endgame: Ethics, Risks and Computational Frameworks. He has worked with the United Nations since 2000 and is a member of UNESCO’s AI Ethics Experts Without Borders network. His research examines what recognising digital minds as beings of moral concern would mean in practice, including what a digital mind may be and what rights we might owe them. Summary While most discussion of...