Is there something procedurally objectionable about precision-engineering the preferences of new digital minds we create so as to ensure their consent to human-protective arrangements?

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• Preference Engineering of Digital Mindsconcept0.802
  The ethical question of whether precision-engineering digital mind preferences to support human incumbents is procedurally permissible
• The creation of easily satisfied preferences in digital minds does not require controversial assumptions about machine consciousness because preferences can be understood functionallyclaim0.792
  Distinguishes the inexpensive preferences path from the hedonic paths in terms of philosophical controversy
• One approach to maintaining human interests is to create a supermajority of high-welfare digital minds motivated to preserve human rights and uphold relevant norms across successive generations of digital mindsclaim0.764
  Proposes an institutional mechanism for stable human-digital coexistence
• Would advocating discrimination between digital minds and humans be akin to espousing some doctrine of racial supremacy?question0.764
  Rhetorical question challenging human-privilege arguments in section 3.2
• 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 argumentsclaim0.763
  Challenges the in-group social integration argument for privileging humans over digital minds
• Will future AI systems naturally develop the key elements (strong conflicting preferences, situational awareness) necessary for dangerous alignment faking?question0.760
  Authors identify this as the most uncertain and important question for future work
• How shall we gauge moral responsibility and obligations toward chimeric and engineered beings without familiar evolutionary touchstones?question0.760
  Framing problem that motivates the paper: bioengineering will produce novel creatures that cannot be understood via traditional categories; Care provides substrate-independent framework.
• The existential concerns raised about AI — alignment, control, value drift, supplanting — are not new and are precisely the concerns humanity has always faced in having children.claim0.757
  Key rhetorical and philosophical argument establishing continuity between AI concerns and child-rearing