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=== Future visions in fiction and games ===
The movie The Thirteenth Floor suggests a future where simulated worlds with sentient inhabitants are created by computer game consoles for the purpose of entertainment. The movie The Matrix suggests a future where the dominant species on planet Earth are sentient machines and humanity is treated with utmost speciesism. The short story "The Planck Dive" suggests a future where humanity has turned itself into software that can be duplicated and optimized and the relevant distinction between types of software is sentient and non-sentient. The same idea can be found in the Emergency Medical Hologram of Starship Voyager, which is an apparently sentient copy of a reduced subset of the consciousness of its creator, Dr. Zimmerman, who, for the best motives, has created the system to give medical assistance in case of emergencies. The movies Bicentennial Man and A.I. deal with the possibility of sentient robots that could love. I, Robot explored some aspects of Asimov's three laws. All these scenarios try to foresee possibly unethical consequences of the creation of sentient computers.
Over time, debates have tended to focus less and less on possibility and more on desirability, as emphasized in the "Cosmist" and "Terran" debates initiated by Hugo de Garis and Kevin Warwick.

== See also ==

== References ==

== External links ==
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence
Russell S, Hauert S, Altman R, Veloso M (May 2015). "Robotics: Ethics of artificial intelligence". Nature. 521 (7553): 415–418. Bibcode:2015Natur.521..415.. doi:10.1038/521415a. PMID 26017428. S2CID 4452826.
AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory by Algorithmwatch
Hagendorff T (March 2020). "The Ethics of AI Ethics: An Evaluation of Guidelines". Minds and Machines. 30 (1): 99–120. arXiv:1903.03425. doi:10.1007/s11023-020-09517-8. S2CID 72940833.
Sheludko, M. (December, 2023). Ethical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Imperatives. Software Development Blog.
Eisikovits N. "AI Is an Existential Threat—Just Not the Way You Think". Scientific American. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
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