The Metaverse is a human rights dilemma

In the seventy-three years since the United Nations ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world has been unable to agree on what rights, exactly, should be accorded to human beings. The increasing scale of AI is raising the stakes for major ethical questions. The very idea itself is controversial. The best that can be said of such idealistic documents is that they limit the most extreme abuses to which people may subject one another, including enslavement and economic exploitation. That's an important achievement because the impending arrival of virtual worlds threatens to compromise human autonomy in the most basic sense.