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The risk of excess objectophilia (misplaced love for non-agential objects) is far smaller than the demonstrated risk of insufficient compassion to genuine agents deemed 'other'.

Argues that the greater ethical failure is exclusion of genuine beings from moral concern, not inclusion of non-agents

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future

(2024) · Michael Levin

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For over a century, doctors believed people with dark skin did not feel pain the same way, resulting in systematic under-prescription of analgesics — a pattern that continues today with female patients
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Historical finding used as evidence that substrate-based moral exclusion has concrete harmful consequences

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AI: a Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future
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The source paper under extraction — a philosophical essay by Michael Levin arguing that AI debates neglect deeper questions about diverse intelligence, developmental biology, and humanity's future

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Human civilization cannot survive without solving the problem of developing principled ethical frameworks for relating to the forthcoming diversity of minds and bodies.
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Stakes-setting claim for the urgency of developing diverse intelligence ethics
The zero-sum view of intelligence — that recognizing shared features between AI and humans devalues humans — must be abandoned as humanity matures.
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Argues that the impulse to sharply demarcate humans from AI stems from misguided zero-sum thinking

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Rhetorical question that gates the claim of shared, objective judgment.
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Risk summary.
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