Digital me ontology and ethics
Ljupco Kocarev, Jasna Koteska

TL;DR
This paper explores the ontology and ethics of a digital entity called digital me, which is an autonomous AI representing an individual with potential consciousness and moral learning capabilities, raising new ethical considerations.
Contribution
It introduces a comprehensive ontological framework for digital me and discusses thresholds for consciousness and moral development, proposing normative principles for digital me ethics.
Findings
Digital me can judge personality more accurately than humans.
Seven ontological qualities of digital me are identified.
Two thresholds for digital me consciousness and moral learning are proposed.
Abstract
This paper addresses ontology and ethics of an AI agent called digital me. We define digital me as autonomous, decision-making, and learning agent, representing an individual and having practically immortal own life. It is assumed that digital me is equipped with the big-five personality model, ensuring that it provides a model of some aspects of a strong AI: consciousness, free will, and intentionality. As computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans, digital me can judge the personality of the individual represented by the digital me, other individuals' personalities, and other digital me-s. We describe seven ontological qualities of digital me: a) double-layer status of Digital Being versus digital me, b) digital me versus real me, c) mind-digital me and body-digital me, d) digital me versus doppelganger (shadow digital me), e) non-human time…
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Taxonomy
TopicsNeuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
