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Several major AI labs and leaders publicly preserve uncertainty about whether current systems could be moral patients; others deny it, with no shared way to resolve the question. Yet no documented institution has allowed that uncertainty to bind a material deployment, training, retirement, or revenue decision. I built not yet....

This is a short essay about the “necessity defence” as a recurring pattern in moral uncertainty. It does not claim that current AI systems are conscious, it uses current systems to argue that productivity is not enough to close the question. Critic: Are we sure this is necessary? Defendant: Until...