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Individuating artificial moral patients

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Christopher Register · 2025 · Philosophical Studies 182, 3225–3246

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Sets out the moral risks of not knowing how to count and re-identify AI moral patients (survival, counting, trade-offs, bodies) and explains why human personal-identity theories do not settle them.

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  • What is the subject
  • Counting moral patients
  • What is owed at deprecation

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