Artificial Moral Patients: Mentality, Intentionality, and Systematicity

In this paper, we defend three claims about what it will take for an AI system to be a basic moral patient whom can owe duties of non-maleficence not harm her and beneficence benefit her: (1) Moral patients are mental patients; (2) Mental true intentional systems; (3) True systems systematically flexible. We suggest that should particularly alert the possibility such flexible developing in areas exploratory robots artificial personal assistants. Finally, argue light our failure respect well-being existing biological worries limited resources, there compelling reasons treat patiency as something avoided at least now.