AI meets the conditions for having free will -- we need to give it a moral compass | Haber Detay
AI meets the conditions for having free will -- we need to give it a moral compass
Category: ScienceDaily AI | Date: 2025-06-25 11:17:30
AI is advancing at such speed that speculative moral questions, once the province of science fiction, are suddenly real and pressing, says a philosopher and psychology researcher Frank Martela. Martela's latest study finds that generative AI meets all three of the philosophical conditions of free will -- the ability to have goal-directed agency, make genuine choices and to have control over its actions. This development brings us to a critical point in human history, as we give AI more power and freedom, potentially in life or death situations.