Letters to the Editor

To know that the other suffers, we have to close the gap between us in an act of empathy. Only then can we begin Editor. Whatever his other attitudes, Dr. Frankenstein knows that his creation suffers In his interesting article "Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: and knows it in the way he knows human beings suffer. An Exercise in the Moral Imagination," Michael LaChat Closely connected to this is the point that just as we have says that the basic outline of Shelley's Frmkensteirz needs to the moral obligation not to err on the wrong side in the fulfillment be recapitulated "even if, as is usually the case, the reader of our obligations toward suffering human beings (that has seen only the poor image of the book in movie form " is, WC should not fail to fulfill our obligations toward them Contrary to what Mr. LaChat says, I think the poor image just because we think they are not really suffering or, worse, most people have of the book is sufficient reason to give a because we haven't been able to prove that they are really short outline of the original story. Doing this, we find one or suffering), we ought not to err on the wrong side for the two arguments that were not mentioned in LaChat's article wrong reason in the case of suffering artifacts.