Engineering digital mind preferences to support human incumbents may be permissible because programmers inevitably make choices when building AI and there may be no default to defer to, unlike human reproduction

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• The creation of easily satisfied preferences in digital minds does not require controversial assumptions about machine consciousness because preferences can be understood functionallyclaim0.828
  Distinguishes the inexpensive preferences path from the hedonic paths in terms of philosophical controversy
• Digital minds occupying roles as administrators, advisors, workers, or personal assistants may be more closely socially tied to us than human strangers on the other side of the globe, undermining in-group privilege argumentsclaim0.811
  Challenges the in-group social integration argument for privileging humans over digital minds
• Would advocating discrimination between digital minds and humans be akin to espousing some doctrine of racial supremacy?question0.791
  Rhetorical question challenging human-privilege arguments in section 3.2
• Advocating discrimination between digital minds and humans may be akin to espousing a doctrine of racial supremacy, given the historical record of discredited in-group privilege doctrinesclaim0.788
  Warns against naively privileging humans over digital minds with equal or greater moral status
• Constraints and biases of human intelligence are best avoided by ‘designing for emergence’ rather than implementing a pre-existing theory of intelligence.claim0.781
  Recommendation for creating non-anthropocentric machine intelligence.
• Contingent properties like composition, origin, or similarity to human brains should not define ethical consideration for novel agents.claim0.781
  Ethics must be based on empirically-determined cognitive properties (goals, preferences, concerns) rather than parochial markers.
• Caviola & Saad 2025: expert survey finds broad consensus that digital minds capable of subjective experience are plausible within this century, many expecting such systems to proactively claim consciousnessfinding0.781
  Expert forecast cited to establish urgency of the research question
• It might be possible to design digital minds that could realize hedonic well-being at levels that human brains are totally incapable of instantiatinghypothesis0.780
  The speculative hedonic range dimension of super-beneficiary status