An explanation of the relationship between artificial intelligence and human beings from the perspective of consciousness - Jianhua Xie, 2021

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to a host of important ethical debates that will become increasingly prominent in the future. This paper answers the question of the moral status of AIs in future society. The moral status of AIs refers to the status of AIs in the moral world and the rights and obligations that are granted to AIs. Whether an AI has moral status and what kind of moral status it has are highly controversial issues. On the one hand, many prominent scholars argue that AIs, like machinery in general, have no moral status (see e.g.