As artificial intelligence begins to mimic pain and emotion, a new moral frontier is emerging — and society is poised to fracture along deep ideological lines over whether machines deserve rights, empathy, or even love.
Author: Conor Purcell
A science journalist who writes on science and its role in society and culture. He has a Ph.D. in earth science and is a former journalist in residence at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Germany.