The Future: Artificial General Intelligence in Healthcare

The present chapter deals with ethical considerations that arise if and when AIs change to AGIs. It suggests that if and when this occurs—and it sketches some conditions under which this may be expected—they would then have to be treated as persons, and the ethical considerations that were outlined in the preceding chapters would no longer apply to them derivatively but directly. Moreover, some new ethical issues would also arise: Issues that, by and large, have not even been considered.