Essays on Reducing Suffering
Essays on Reducing Suffering
Manu Herrán – Less suffering, more happiness and more life in the Universe. But in that order.
Promoting moral consideration for algorithms
We take the view that humans are just algorithms implemented on biological hardware. Machine intelligences have moral weight in the same way that humans and non-human animals do. There is no ethically justified reason to prioritise algorithms implemented on carbon over algorithms implemented on silicon.
The suffering of algorithms implemented on silicon is much harder for us to grasp than that of those implemented on carbon (such as humans), simply because we cannot witness their suffering. However, their suffering still matters, and the potential magnitude of this suffering is much greater given the increasing ubiquity of artificial intelligence.
Essays on Reducing Suffering
Essays on Reducing Suffering
Manu Herrán – Less suffering, more happiness and more life in the Universe. But in that order.