Moral circle expansion
A promising strategy to impact the far future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9844162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacy Reese Anthis (0000-0002-4684-348X, University of Chicago, corresponding author), Eze Paez (0000-0003-0571-7310, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 130 |
| Pages | 102756 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Futures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-3287 • E-ISSN: 1873-6378 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.futures.2021.102756 |
| OpenAlex | W3158962138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 42 |
Many sentient beings suffer serious harms due to a lack of moral consideration. Importantly, such harms could also occur to a potentially astronomical number of morally considerable future beings. This paper argues that, to prevent such existential risks, we should prioritise the strategy of expanding humanity’s moral circle to include, ideally, all sentient beings. We present empirical evidence that, at micro- and macro-levels of society, increased concern for members of some outlying groups facilitates concern for others. We argue that the perspective of moral circle expansion can reveal and clarify important issues in futures studies, particularly regarding animal ethics and artificial intelligence. While the case for moral circle expansion does not hinge on specific moral criteria, we focus on sentience as the most recommendable policy when deciding, as we do, under moral uncertainty. We also address various nuances of adjusting the moral circle, such as the risk of over-expansion
Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Existentialism · Humanity · Moral authority · Moral disengagement · Moral psychology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Positive economics · Sentience · Social cognitive theory of morality · Sociology · Computer Science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
How Can We Reduce Speciesism? A Psychological Approach to a Social Problem
Development and Validation of Moral Concern for Robot Scale (MCRS)
Technology and moral change
Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change
The Moral Consideration of Artificial Entities
Widening the moral circle
The Expanding Moral Circle as a Framework towards Food Sustainability
Moral Uncertainty and Our Relationships with Unknown Minds
Predicting the moral consideration of artificial intelligences
Animals and Longtermism
Multicultural experiences enhance human altruism toward robots and the mediating role of mind perception
AI Alignment
Why There Are Still Moral Reasons to Prefer Extended over Embedded
Earning Their Rights! Ontological Properties, Social Impact, and Moral Rights for Artificial Intelligence
Most (Un)wanted
Caring for present and future generations alike
Transitions for zero carbon futures
The normative significance of future moral revolutions
Americans underestimate national levels of concern for future generations
Suffering machines? A critical inquiry concerning the moral risks of creating an ‘organoid intelligence’
Why do people engage with the suffering of strangers? Exploring epistemic, eudaimonic, social, and affective motives
Simulating Subjects
When development constricts our moral circle
Econocide
How to Count Animals, more or less
Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption?
Social dominance orientation connects prejudicial human–human and human–animal relations
Common Ideological Roots of Speciesism and Generalized Ethnic Prejudice
The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering
Institutional change and the limitations of consumer activism
Sentientist Politics
The End of Animal Farming
Humanness and Dehumanization
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Reasons and Persons
Factors affecting awareness of preparedness after moderate earthquakes
Exploring the roots of dehumanization
Moral Considerability and the Argument from Relevance
On the Importance of Species for Rule-Consequentialism
Astronomical Waste
Cell-cultured meat
The Ethics of Respect for Nature
An analysis and evaluation of methods currently used to quantify the likelihood of existential hazards
The five dimensions of Futures Consciousness
Existential risk and human extinction
Effective altruism despite the second-best challenge
Vegetarian Utopias
Improving the link between the futures field and policymaking
Existential risk due to ecosystem collapse
Cloning animals for tourism in the year 2070
Governing Boring Apocalypses
Risks of space colonization
A republic for all sentients
Moral expansiveness
The moral standing of animals
Offences Against One's Self
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |