“I think that wide exposure to thoughtful science fiction clearly reveals that the moral status of AIs should be guided entirely by the psychological and social properties of the AIs and not by facts about their material architecture, species membership, bodily shape, or manufactured origin, except insofar as the latter facts influence their psychological and social properties.”

— Eric Schwitzgebel, An interview with Eric Schwitzgebel and Mara Garza (People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners, Nov 13, 2015)