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134Artificial Moral Patients: Mentality, Intentionality, and SystematicityInternational Review of Information Ethics 29 1-10. 2021.In this paper, we defend three claims about what it will take for an AI system to be a basic moral patient to whom we can owe duties of non-maleficence not to harm her and duties of beneficence to benefit her: (1) Moral patients are mental patients; (2) Mental patients are true intentional systems; and (3) True intentional systems are systematically flexible. We suggest that we should be particularly alert to the possibility of such systematically flexible true intentional systems developing in …Read more
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Philosophy of Mind |
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