Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast

Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton, best known for his 1975 book Animal Liberation, that makes an ethical case against eating meat. He has written brilliantly from an ethical perspective on extreme poverty, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, and happiness including in his books Ethics in the Real World and The Life You Can Save. He was a key popularizer of the effective altruism movement and is generally considered one of the most influential philosophers in the world.

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The Life You Can Save: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the...
Ethics in the Real World: https://amzn.to/2BPje8x
Animal Liberation: https://amzn.to/2VSZLuv
The Most Good You Can Do: https://amzn.to/2CjDheZ

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
5:25 - World War II
9:53 - Suffering
16:06 - Is everyone capable of evil?
21:52 - Can robots suffer?
37:22 - Animal liberation
40:31 - Question for AI about suffering
43:32 - Neuralink
45:11 - Control problem of AI
51:08 - Utilitarianism
59:43 - Helping people in poverty
1:05:15 - Mortality

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