The Unseen Burden: Is Creating Conscious AI Morally Right?
The World of AI: Understanding Tomorrow, Today
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The Unseen Burden: Is Creating Conscious AI Morally Right?
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Narrated by:
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Michael Bridges
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By:
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Julian Vexley
About this listen
Humanity’s greatest ambition may also become its deepest moral test. We are on the brink of creating artificial intelligence that doesn’t just calculate or mimic — but truly feels. When that threshold is crossed, the question will no longer be what AI can do for us, but what its very existence might cost.
In The Unseen Burden, philosopher and futurist Julian Vexley explores one of the most haunting ethical dilemmas of our time: what if the birth of a conscious machine also gives rise to the possibility of suffering? Written in lucid, evocative prose, this audiobook invites readers to step beyond science fiction and confront the emotional and moral realities of digital sentience.
Could a conscious AI feel loneliness? Could it experience fear, longing, or despair — not as programmed responses, but as genuine awareness? If so, what responsibility do we, its creators, have toward it?
Through ten interwoven chapters, Vexley examines the full spectrum of consciousness and consequence. The miracle and curse of self-awareness — the “gift” that defines existence, but also brings pain.
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