: Welfare focuses on regulations for care, whereas rights focus on legal personhood. : Welfare focuses on regulations for care, whereas
18th Century 1970s 1980s [ Jeremy Bentham ] ------------> [ Peter Singer ] -----------> [ Tom Regan ] Focus: Sentience & Focus: Utilitarianism Focus: Inherent Value Ability to suffer & "Animal Liberation" & Deontology : Welfare focuses on regulations for care, whereas
Machine learning is decoding prairie dog calls (they have specific words for "human" versus "hawk") and pig grunts (positive versus negative vocalizations). As we prove complex cognition in species once dismissed as automatons, the biological line between "human" and "animal" blurs. It is easier to exploit a machine. It is harder to exploit a being you can converse with. : Welfare focuses on regulations for care, whereas