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    Linking digital minds and artificial moral agents.Soenke Ziesche - manuscript
    This paper aims to bridge the gap between two previously separate discussions, digital minds and artificial moral agents (AMA), to identify synergies for an impending problem: Digital minds may possess moral status, which would constitute a significant challenge for humans. AMAs have been discussed for some years already, albeit, exclusively related to biological moral patients. In contrast, the topic of artificial moral patients, for which the term ”digital minds” has been established, and related issues, for which the term ”AI welfare (...)
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    Vulnerable digital minds.Soenke Ziesche - manuscript
    AI welfare science explores the ethical implications of digital minds potentially possessing moral status. Moral principles are especially important when considering the welfare of weaker or more susceptible members of a society. The purpose of this paper is to describe which potential digital minds deserve special moral consideration as well as what types of risks these minds are exposed to. We call these minds “vulnerable digital minds” or “VDMs” and have identified as main risks for them discrimination as well as (...)
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  3. Stimuli from selected non-Western approaches to AI ethics.Soenke Ziesche - manuscript
    While the urgent need for ethics for the thriving field of AI has been acknowledged, currently Western approaches to AI ethics are prevalent. This constitutes a problem because, on the one hand, these approaches tend to reflect the values of the regions where they are originating from, on the other hand, not all values are universal. This form of digital neo-colonialism ought to be prevented. As a step in this direction this article presents ten selected concepts of non-Western approaches to (...)
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  4. Mapping the potential AI-driven virtual hyper-personalised ikigai universe.Soenke Ziesche & Roman Yampolskiy - manuscript
    Ikigai is a Japanese concept, which, in brief, refers to the “reason or purpose to live”. I-risks have been identified as a category of risks complementing x- risks, i.e., existential risks, and s-risks, i.e., suffering risks, which describes undesirable future scenarios in which humans are deprived of the pursuit of their individual ikigai. While some developments in AI increase i-risks, there are also AI-driven virtual opportunities, which reduce i-risks by increasing the space of potential ikigais, largely due to developments in (...)
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  5. The problem of AI identity.Soenke Ziesche & Roman V. Yampolskiy - manuscript
    The problem of personal identity is a longstanding philosophical topic albeit without final consensus. In this article the somewhat similar problem of AI identity is discussed, which has not gained much traction yet, although this investigation is increasingly relevant for different fields, such as ownership issues, personhood of AI, AI welfare, brain–machine interfaces, the distinction between singletons and multi-agent systems as well as to potentially support finding a solution to the problem of personal identity. The AI identity problem analyses the (...)
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  6. Designometry – Formalization of Artifacts and Methods.Soenke Ziesche & Roman Yampolskiy - manuscript
    Two interconnected surveys are presented, one of artifacts and one of designometry. Artifacts are objects, which have an originator and do not exist in nature. Designometry is a new field of study, which aims to identify the originators of artifacts. The space of artifacts is described and also domains, which pursue designometry, yet currently doing so without collaboration or common methodologies. On this basis, synergies as well as a generic axiom and heuristics for the quest of the creators of artifacts (...)
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