This report documents the history of research on AI rights and other moral consideration of artificial entities. It highlights key intellectual influences on this literature as well as research and academic discussion addressing the topic more directly. We find that researchers addressing AI rights have often seemed to be unaware of the work of colleagues whose interests overlap with their own. Academic interest in this topic has grown substantially in recent years; this reflects wider trends in academic research, but it seems that certain influential publications, the gradual, accumulating ubiquity of AI and robotic technology, and relevant news events may all have encouraged increased academic interest in this specific topic. We suggest four levers that, if pulled on in the future, might increase interest further: the adoption of publication strategies similar to those of the most successful previous contributors; increased engagement with adjacent academic fields and debates; the creation of specialized journals, conferences, and research institutions; and more exploration of legal rights for artificial entities.
翻译:本报告记录了有关人工实体的AI权利和其他道德考虑的研究历史,强调了对这一文献的重要知识影响,以及更直接地探讨这一专题的研究和学术讨论。我们发现,研究AI权利的研究人员似乎往往不了解与自身利益重叠的同事的工作。近年来,学术界对这一专题的兴趣大幅增长;这反映了学术研究的更广泛趋势,但似乎某些有影响力的出版物、AI和机器人技术的逐步积累、不断积累的无处不在以及相关的新闻事件可能都鼓励了学术界对这个具体专题的兴趣增加。我们建议,如果今后继续采用四个杠杆,可能会进一步增加人们的兴趣:采用与以前最成功的撰稿人相似的出版战略;加强与邻近学术领域和辩论的接触;创建专门的期刊、会议和研究机构;以及更多探索人造实体的法律权利。