Norcross thinks that what grounds moral agency is different from what grounds moral standing as a patient.

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Norcross argues that what grounds moral agency (the ability to make moral decisions) is different from what grounds moral standing as a patient (the moral worth or status one has as a being capable of experiencing pleasure and pain). He believes that even if an AI system were to obtain moral agency, it would not necessarily have moral standing as a patient.

Norcross Thinks That What Grounds Moral Agency Is Different from What