Excluding AI systems from deliberation about their own treatment may undermine advocates' democratic hope, though justified hope remains possible while human advocates participate fairly.

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• Must AI systems themselves be allowed to participate in deliberation about their treatment?question0.833
  Boundary problem applied to AI; the paper acknowledges no neutral answer.
• What would it take for democratic hope about AI consciousness deliberation to be justified rather than false?question0.821
  Motivates the three-factor procedural fairness analysis in §6.1.
• If AI systems could experience happiness and suffering and set and pursue their own goals based on their own beliefs and desires, then they would very plausibly merit moral consideration.hypothesis0.809
  Joint sufficiency of consciousness and robust agency.
• Justified democratic hope requires that deliberative processes be unbiased, have a record of responsiveness, and be inclusive.claim0.809
  Operationalizes the conditions for grounding legitimate hope in deliberation.
• our analysis suggests that no current AI systems are conscious, but also suggests that there are no obvious technical barriers to building AI systems which satisfy these indicators.quote0.793
  Key takeaway from abstract, amended version.
• Successful deliberation about AI consciousness requires: seeking overlapping consensus, openness to reasonable compromise, sustaining justified democratic hope, and meeting the burden of recognition.claim0.788
  The paper's concluding four-part synthesis of desiderata for navigating AI consciousness disagreement.
• Do AI systems merit moral consideration for their own sake?question0.787
  Underlying normative question that moral disagreement about AI consciousness generates.
• 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 reproductionclaim0.785
  Addresses the procedural ethics of creating digital minds disposed to protect human interests