Question

Which two criteria are commonly proposed as being linked to moral status in AI?

Select one:

A. 1) Sentience: a set of capacities associated with higher intelligence such as self-awareness and being a reason-responsive agent; 2) Sapience: the capacity for phenomenal experience or qualia, such as the capacity to feel pain or suffer

B. 1) Sapience: the capacity for phenomenal experience or qualia, such as the capacity to feel pain or suffer; 2) Generality: the ability to intelligently do more than one thing well

C. 1) Sentience: a set of capacities associated with higher intelligence such as self-awareness and being a reason-responsive agent; 2) Generality: the ability to intelligently do more than one thing well

D. 1) Sentience: the capacity for phenomenal experience or qualia, such as the capacity to feel pain or suffer; 2) Sapience: a set of capacities associated with higher intelligence such as self-awareness and being a reason-responsive agent

Answer 1

D. 1) Sentience: the capacity for phenomenal experience or qualia, such as the capacity to feel pain or suffer; 2) Sapience: a set of capacities associated with higher intelligence such as self-awareness and being a reason-responsive agent.

The criteria commonly proposed as being linked to AI is sentience and sapience. Sentience refers to the capacity to experience pain, pleasure, happiness and suffering. This criterion for moral status sounds true as per the utilitarian view. Sapience as in homosapiens refers to higher order of intelligence where one is aware of one own self. If AI has both the criteria, then it can be concluded that it has moral status.