Debate on AI Moral Status: Non-Human Suffering Acknowledged but Transitivity Rejected

In an AI ethics debate, one side concedes that non-human suffering may carry moral weight but rejects the transitivity axiom for pairwise ethical decisions, arguing no moral agent truly follows it, while defending a scalar-utilitarian approach to machine suffering.

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