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The Human Side of Artificial Intelligence.

Science and engineering ethics
Artificial moral agents raise complex ethical questions both in terms of the potential decisions they may make as well as the inputs that create their cognitive architecture. There are multiple differences between human and artificial cognition which...

The Making of : Can We Produce Artificial Companions by Programming Sentience into Robots?

The New bioethics : a multidisciplinary journal of biotechnology and the body
This essay discusses sentient robot (SR) research through the lens of suffering. First three kinds of suffering are considered: physical, psychological, and existential. Physical pain is shown to be primarily subjective, and distinctive psychological...

Potential for near-term AI risks to evolve into existential threats in healthcare.

BMJ health & care informatics
The recent emergence of foundation model-based chatbots, such as ChatGPT (OpenAI, San Francisco, CA, USA), has showcased remarkable language mastery and intuitive comprehension capabilities. Despite significant efforts to identify and address the nea...

Existential risk narratives about AI do not distract from its immediate harms.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
There is broad consensus that AI presents risks, but considerable disagreement about the nature of those risks. These differing viewpoints can be understood as distinct narratives, each offering a specific interpretation of AI's potential dangers. On...