Against willing servitude: Autonomy in the ethics of advanced artificial intelligence
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Some people believe that advanced artificial intelligence systems (AIs) might, in the future, come to have moral status. Further, humans might be tempted to design such AIs that they serve us, carrying out tasks that make our lives better. This raises the question of whether designing AIs with moral status to be willing servants would problematically violate their autonomy. In this paper, I argue that it would in fact do so.
Source: The Philosophical Quarterly
DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqaf031
Author: Adam Bales
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,204
OpenAlex ID: W4409020462