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https://incet.uj.edu.pl/tomasz-zuradzki

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Jonathan Birch, Précis of The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

Abstract

The Edge of Sentience offers an ambitious and timely institutional framework for proportionate precaution under uncertainty about sentience. Its systematic treatment of empirical and theoretical uncertainty across diverse cases is a major contribution. Focusing on the problem of identifying and weighing different risks when designing proportionate precautions, this commentary suggests three areas in which Birch’s framework could be developed further: a more domain-sensitive justification of the priority given to avoiding under-attribution; a clearer distinction among competing forms of risk aversion and their divergent policy implications; and a fuller explanation of how the framework generates different recommendations across cases.

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Author Biography

Tomasz Żuradzki is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Jagiellonian University. He leads the ERC-funded BIOUNCERTAINTY project. His research concerns bioethics, value theory, research ethics, and the role of values in science. Website

DOI

10.51291/2377-7478.1948