Letters To The Editor: Ai Bots With Personhood Rights? Why We’re Still Far Away From That

Eric Schwitzgebel and Henry Shevlin’s desire to jump far ahead of the current state of artificial intelligence is both wrongheaded and disturbing in its implications to society. Despite breakthroughs in fuzzy logic and neural networks, all current artificial intelligences are linearly programmed code and lack emotional content. Emotional content does not come from analytical data input but from nonlinear, visceral reactions, such as fear or joy, which are not possible with current AI technology.