Do we have Procreative Obligations to AI Superbeneficiaries?

Abstract

This paper concerns itself primarily with questions about our obligations to AI superbeneficiaries – entities with inherently valuable interests that exceed those of humans in terms of quality and/or quantity. Specifically, this paper deals with questions about whether we have any obligations to bring AI superbeneficiaries into existence, especially if it turns out that human well-being might very well be at stake. I employs an anti-natalist argument to establish that we have all-things-considered moral obligations against bringing AI superbeneficiaries into existence because of the existential risk they pose to their own survival as well as to the survival of humanity.