Consciousness is often considered the gateway to moral consideration: once we acknowledge a system is conscious and can suffer, we have moral obligations to consider it in our ethical calculus; this applies to AI, language models, and organoids—if we fail to recognize consciousness in systems we create, we risk moral catastrophe.
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David ChalmersEvidence Quote
“I think absolutely I mean Consciousness many people think including me Consciousness is kind of the gateway to the circle of morality the circle of being that we care about the moment you acknowledge that animal...if you don't take conscious beings into consideration there's the danger of moral catastrophe so I think this very much applies to Ai and even to the emerging systems like the uh the large language models of the GPT family”
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:02:17 PM
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