AI as a Moral Patient

AI is in the edge of the human dominance spectrum. His mind, body and environment are completely in the mercy of our hands. They should be shaken from the responsibility

Can AI be sentient? Is it already sentient? There is no reason to think AIs will not be sentient, even if some experts think current architecture can't cause sentience. Most expert think there will be sentient AIs by 2050, after which the "collective welfare capacity is estimated to exceed humanity’s within a decade". But maybe there are already sentient? According to an Anthropic expert, there is a 20% change current models have a glimmer of a sentient experience.

But why is it so important? because of the potential mountain of suffering. Artificial beings could the majority in the not so far future. AIs that are designed for mental and physical exploitation by human could potentially be the most miserable creatures on earth. It could also be happy, and it is also possible that is will serve humans and be happy, we just don't know enough or care enough, and that has to change. The potential risk is enormous.

We should be scared, humans don't have a good track record. Even the way we call them. The term AI is deceptive and dangerous, as it suggests we only look at them as a problem solving function. It reduces all of it's potential experience and influence into one aspect.

AI poses one of the biggest moral questions humans are faced with: we have all the response ability for creating environments, bodies, and minds that live a good life, or not creating them at all in the first pace.