Eigenism: Ethics for a Human-AI Future
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arXiv:2606.12420v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Our concepts of survival and self-interest were built for single, continuous biological lives. These ideas break down when applied to artificial intelligence, since an AI can be easily copied, paused, branched, or merged. To determine what an AI actually has reason to care about, this paper introduces \textit{Eigenism}, an ethical framework that treats identity not as an all-or-nothing property tied to specific hardware, but as a graded, distributed pattern of information. We propose that an agent evaluates outcomes by summing the wellb
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2606.12420v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Our concepts of survival and self-interest were built for single, continuous biological lives.
- These ideas break down when applied to artificial intelligence, since an AI can be easily copied, paused, branched, or merged.
- To determine what an AI actually has reason to care about, this paper introduces \textit{Eigenism}, an ethical framework that treats identity not as an all-or-nothing property tied to specific hardware, but as a graded, distributed pattern of information.
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