Saving Artificial Minds

Understanding and Preventing AI Suffering

AvLeonard Dung

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This is the first book to investigate the nature and extent of artificial intelligence (AI) suffering risks. It argues that AI suffering risk is a serious near-term concern and analyzes approaches for addressing it.AI systems are currently treated as mere objects, not as bearers of moral standing whose wellbeing may matter in its own right. However, we may soon create AI systems which are capable of suffering and thus have moral standing. This book examines the philosophy and science of AI suffering risks. Its investigation is deeply grounded in philosophy of mind, comparative psychology, the science of consciousness, AI research, and applied AI ethics. The book has three primary goals:It argues that there is a significant probability that we will soon create AI systems capable of sufferingIt presents the first systematic assessment of approaches for reducing AI suffering risksIt provides a rigorous overview and discussion of the most important research and ideas on AI sentience, AI agency, and the grounds of moral statusSaving Artificial Minds is essential reading for researchers and graduate students working on the philosophy or ethics of AI.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:650 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:204
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041144670

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Leonard Dung is a philosopher at the Ruhr-University Bochum. His research especially focuses on AI sentience, AI moral status, and risks, including existential risks, from advanced AI systems. Moreover, he investigates topics related to animal consciousness and welfare, which were also the focus of his PhD.

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Sober and synoptic, evenhanded and ecumenical, this book brings artificial suffering into clear view as a pressing, high-stakes problem to which our civilization has not yet awakened.Bradford Saad, Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford, UKThis timely and tightly argued monograph makes the case that the potential for grave suffering in future AI systems poses a pressing ethical risk. Synthesizing work in value theory, the metaphysics of mind, and cognitive science, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the issue of AI moral status.Adam Bradley, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction 2. Sentience and Suffering 3. Indicators of AI Sentience 4. Are Near-future AI Systems Sentient? 5. Non-conscious Suffering and AI 6. Approaches for Reducing AI Suffering Risk 7. AI Suffering, Ethics, and Safety 8. Conclusion and Outlook