It always seemed obvious to me that entities which feel things are afforded commensurate moral consideration.

I wish us all good luck in the future differentiating between actual “something in there is feeling something” sentience as most of us believe we ourselves have and the incredibly sophisticated (yet lights-out) puppetry that AGI would no doubt be capable of performing.

Personally I don’t think you can accidentally engineer even a ferret’s worth of sentience, but what the hell do I know?

I look forward to this area technically and dread it morally. I aim to err on the side of kindness, even when others think it ridiculous.

Don’t abuse your robots, folks.