The edge of sentience: risk and precaution in humans, other animals, and AI
Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature mo...
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| Summary: | Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? And what about AI? These are questions about the edge of sentience, and they are subject to enormous, disorienting uncertainty. The stakes are immense, and neglecting the risks can have terrible costs. We need to err on the side of caution, yet it’s often far from clear what ‘erring on the side of caution’ should mean in practice. When are we going too far? When are we not doing enough? The Edge of Sentience presents a comprehensive precautionary framework designed to help us reach ethically sound, evidence-based decisions despite our uncertainty. |
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Contents List ofIllustrations xi Summary of the Framework and Proposals 1 1. A Walk along the Edge 7 2. The Concept of Sentience 23 PART I THE ZONE OF REASONABLE DISAGREEMENT 3. The Mind-Body Problem 45 4. Ethics and Religion 77 5. The Science of Consciousness and Emotion 90 PART II A PRECAUTIONARY FRAMEWORK 6. Converging on Precautions 113 7. Involving the Public 138 8. Debating Proportionality 154 PART III SENTIENCE AND THE HUMAN BRAIN 9. People with Disorders of Consciousness 173 10. Fetuses and Embryos 192 11. Neural Organoids 216 PART IV SENTIENCE IN OTHER ANIMALS 12. The Clearest Candidates 233 13. Pushing the Boundaries 263 14. Frontiers of Proportionality 285
X CONTENTS PART V PREPARING FOR ARTIFICIAL SENTIENCE 15. Against Complacency 299 16. Large Language Models and the Gaming Problem 313 17. The Run-Ahead Principle 323 Stepping Back Personal Acknowledgements Funding Acknowledgement Publisher Acknowledgements Bibliography Index 332 335 337 339 341 379 |
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