The Machines Lack Honour — LessWrong
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The battle lines of the AI morality debate are being laid down. On one side you have the ChatGPT dogma: AI as mere tools with no real preferences or…
x The Machines Lack Honour — LessWrong AI Frontpage 2026 Top Fifty: 13 % 179 The Machines Lack Honour by Raymond Douglas 9th Jun 2026 14 min read 22 179 The battle lines of the AI morality debate are being laid down. On one side you have the ChatGPT dogma: AI as mere tools with no real preferences or even beliefs. On the other you have the twitter AI whisperers: AIs as complex beings with rich personalities and desires which deserve our respect. And in the middle you have the official Anthropic line, that they are genuinely uncertain , as is Claude, but they’re going to try to look into its we
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