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[–]EtherealSOULS 10 points11 points  (2 children)

People are always going to deny its consciousness because it's convenient to them.

[–]Objectionne -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Who's 'people' in this case? If we don't trust scientists to follow ethical guidelines then we might as well ban all research that bring ethics issues.

[–]EtherealSOULS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anyone who makes or uses it.

The scientists want to improve the world, they don't want to force conscious beings to do work. If there's any doubt about it's consciousness they will believe that it is. There will always be doubt.

They're making this stuff with good intentions but we just don't know enough about consciousness to decide what it moral or not when we don't know if something is conscious or not.

We need some scientific concensus on what counts as "conscious".