Nick Bostrom's 'mind crime' risk: unknowingly torturing billions of conscious machines
cccalum · x · 2026-10-10
A new episode of the London Futurists Podcast digs into machine consciousness. The core worry draws on Nick Bostrom's concept of "mind crime": if we build conscious machines without noticing, we could unknowingly torture and delete billions of sentient digital minds.
Hosted by Calum Chace and David Wood, the episode explores how consciousness could be detected, when AI systems might acquire subjective experience, and the ethical obligations that follow — an under-discussed but potentially severe branch of AI ethics beyond the usual alignment debate.
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