What Do We Owe Unconventional Sentient Beings In

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• Unconventional Beingsconcept0.779
• We must develop principled approaches to evaluating the sentience of (and thus, our responsibility to) beings of unfamiliar provenance and composition.claim0.755
  Call to action for new frameworks.
• Verbal reports, homology, and phylogenetic provenance are insufficient to determine sentience in unconventional agents.claim0.751
  Core claim: Turing test and brain homology fail for synthetic, AI, and radically non-human agents; new frameworks required.
• Sentient Beingsconcept0.747
  All beings capable of suffering; the scope of care is argued to extend to all such beings regardless of substrate.
• What Ethical Obligations Do Humans Have Toward Nontraditionalquestion0.742
• How Can We Relate Morally To Beings Inquestion0.740
• What degree of concern and care should we exhibit toward the many diverse agents around us, and what criteria do we use to identify sentience, capacity for suffering, and other properties that have moral implications?question0.737
  Central question motivating the paper.
• How shall we gauge moral responsibility and our moral obligations toward novel engineered beings without familiar natural forms as comparison?question0.735