AI Successors Worth Creating? Commentary on Lavazza & Vilaça

Philosophy and Technology 37 (1):1-5 (2024)
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This is a commentary on Andrea Lavazza and Murilo Vilaça's article "Human Extinction and AI: What We Can Learn from the Ultimate Threat" (Lavazza & Vilaça, 2024). I discuss the potential concern that their proposal to create artificial successors to "insure" against the tragedy of human extinction might mean being too quick to accept that catastrophic prospect as inevitable, rather than single-mindedly focusing on avoiding it. I also consider the question of the value that we might reasonably assign to such a future of artificial successors under the assumption that they do not enjoy phenomenal consciousness.

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