Animals
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Pollan: Humans will not grant conscious AI moral consideration
“The idea we're automatically going to treat them with all this moral consideration because they're conscious. That seems given the fact we continue to eat animals. We know we full well know our conscious. I don't know that we're quite as enlightened as that co…”
Ben-Shitrit: Top 20 meat companies will include animal-free producers in a decade
“If you look even 10 years from now, out of the 20 biggest meat companies around the world, One company or two companies for sure will not rely on animals. This I have no doubt.”
Friedberg: Replacing conventional meat requires cheaper, chemically identical alternatives
“The way to replace the solution is to make ground beef that's chemically identical, meaning it's the same product and it's made cheaper. And you just don't happen to use animals.”
Darling: Society will integrate robots similarly to how humans integrated animals
“Throughout history, we've treated some animals as property, as tools, some animals we've turned into our companions, and I think that that is how we're going to start integrating robotic technology as well. We're going to be treating a lot of it like products …”
Human empathy for animals is based on cuteness and culture, not biology
“We fancy ourselves as caring about, you know, the inner biological workings of the animals and whether animals can suffer, and we actually don't care about any of that. We care about what animals we relate to, and a lot of that is cultural and emotional, and a…”
Animal legal history provides a framework for regulating autonomous, unpredictable robots
“And I think we're forgetting that we have a ton of history with animals where we have things that we've treated as property that can make autonomous, unpredictable decisions that can cause harm.”