Machine consciousness contributor Jeff Sebo asks: should you save a struggling ant?
cccalum · x · 2026-10-17
Calum shares a new piece by philosopher Jeff Sebo, contributor to Perspectives on Machine Consciousness: should you save a struggling ant?
It's Sebo's signature small-scale moral intuition probe — reasoning from duties toward tiny lives to obligations toward potentially conscious AI — a worthwhile extension of the machine consciousness ethics discussion.
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