The Hokkaido University Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences Applied Ethics and Philosophy Research and Education Center will hold the 39th Applied Ethics and Philosophy Symposium, "Moral Status in Near-Future Society: AI, Organoids, and Animals," on March 17.

In recent years, with the remarkable development of AI, robotics and biotechnology, the moral status of non-human entities has become a major ethical issue. For example, can AI and robots that behave autonomously like humans be subject to the same moral actors and responsibility attributions as humans? Also, do brain substitutes, such as human brain organoids created from stem cells, require moral consideration? This workshop will comprehensively discuss the moral status of non-human entities in the near-future society from the perspectives of experimental philosophy and AI/animal ethics.

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