Andy Masley: we owe humans positive duties and conscious AIs negative duties
AndyMasley · x · 2026-10-03
In a debate on weighing human vs AI rights, Andy Masley argues against scoring beings by weight: humans would carry special positive obligations, while conscious AIs would warrant negative obligations not to mistreat them. He adds that rights are useful social conventions emerging from how we relate to each other, not written into the universe — though he wishes they were.
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