You can't lift moral value out of humans and into AI — the individual is more fundamental than utility
luke_drago_ · x · 2026-09-06
Can moral value be lifted out of the human and into something else, like AI? Utilitarian and Benthamite abstracted moral theories tend to say yes. The author argues they're missing something fundamental: we are the moral territory, and the individual is more fundamental than utility.
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