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James DiGiovanna: Can You Trust an AI That Could Rewrite Itself Tomorrow?
James DiGiovanna is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, where his research centres on personal identity, human enhancement and the ethics of artificial minds. He coined the term "paraperson," an entity that meets every test of personhood but can instantly rewrite its own memory, character and values, in his chapter for Oxford's Robot Ethics 2.0.
Andrew and James talk about why today's AI companions don't yet qualify as parapersons, what would need to change for that to happen, and why the constant self-rewriting these systems already do…
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