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On the Existence of Robot Zombies and our Ethical Obligations to AI Systems

AI sentience and moral statusAcademic

Assessment outcome

total 4/6 (actionability 1 + authority 1 + currency 2)

Total4/6
Actionability1/2
Authority1/2
Currency2/2

Authorship & scope

Attribution (G4 evidence)

No evidence recorded for this source.

Issuer authority (evidence)

No evidence recorded for this source.

Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.

Eligibility gates

G1 · Retrievablepass

Passed in screening.

G2 · AI nexuspass

Passed in screening.

G3 · Governance nexuspass

Passed in screening.

G4 · Attributablepass

Passed in screening.

G5 · In forcepass

Passed in screening.

Scored criteria

Actionability

1/2

No rationale recorded.

As long as there is a non-zero probability that a machine is sentient, such a machine should be granted some moral status.

Authority

1/2

No rationale recorded.

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL COMPUTING ISSN 2688 -5255 02/07 pp270 −274 Volume 4, Number 4, December 2023 DOI: 10.23919/JSC.2023.0023

Currency

2/2

No rationale recorded.

Classification

Coverage topicAI sentience and moral status
PerspectiveAcademic
Lifecycle stageN/A cross-cutting
Layermodel
GranularityNot recorded