#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI

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
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 - Introduction
05:25 - World War II 09:53 - 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