Quite possibly, workable ethics will pretty much require full-fledged General Artificial Intelligence, verging on actual Self-Awareness. There's a great discus

Quite possibly, workable ethics will pretty much require full-fledged General Artificial Intelligence, verging on actual Self-Awareness. There's a great discussion of this in the (Furry) web-comic Freefall: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ http://freefall.purrsia.com/ (which is most easily read using the speed reader: https://tangent128.name/depot/toys/freefall/freefall-flytable.html https://tangent128.name/depot/toys/freefall/freefall-flytabl... )