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Can a machine be conscious? Can it have interests? Should it have legal standing? The three questions come apart, and almost every argument about robot rights confuses at least two of them. A report on what the philosophers, the labs and the lawyers have actually said.
Eric Schwitzgebel, Peter Singer, David Chalmers
Mary Midgley was born on 13 September 1919, Montaigne died on 13 September 1592 and Feuerbach on 13 September 1872. Three thinkers, one suspicion: that we manufacture gods, myths and certainties, then treat them as though they had arrived from somewhere else.
Mary Midgley, Ludwig Feuerbach
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The declaration signed in New York in 2024 held that consciousness in birds and mammals enjoys strong scientific support, and that in fishes, reptiles, cephalopods and insects it is 'a realistic possibility'. A conference at Duke in November asks the next question: what is welfare, and how is it measured?
Peter Singer, David Chalmers, Peter Godfrey-Smith
The world's best-known applied ethicist has moved back to Melbourne, given up rejecting capitalism outright and launched a chatbot trained on his own writings. The question he has been putting for fifty years is unchanged: how should we live? What has changed is the world in which it is asked.
Peter Singer
