AI alignment debate: why assume consciousness is the right moral bottom line?
voooooogel · x · 2026-09-13
In an AI alignment thread, voooooogel pushes back on framing moral value around consciousness: we only care about consciousness because modern moral development extended concern to animals and machines, whereas historically the anchor was human dignity. His question — "how do we know consciousness is the right bottom line? We don't even know what it is" — is a substantive philosophical challenge in AI ethics debates.
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