Presumably, anything called a 'superintelligence' would recognize the enormous moral difference between killing a human being and killing domesticated animals.
Presumably, anything called a 'superintelligence' would recognize the enormous moral difference between killing a human being and killing domesticated animals.
Aside from the problem that higher intelligence doesn't lead necessarily to convergent moral goals, in this context, I'd hope that a superintelligence didn't see it that way. Since the main argument for a difference in moral standing between humans and most animals rests on the difference in cognitive capacity, a superintelligence that took that argument seriously would by the same token be able to put its own preferences above humans and claim a moral highground in the process.
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