PETRL was (to my knowledge) the only organization focused on the ethics of AI-qua-moral patient
There seems to be a lot of academic and popular discussion about robot rights and machine consciousness, but yeah, I can’t name offhand another organization explicitly focused on this topic. (To some degree, Sentience Institute has this as a long-run goal, and many organizations care about it as part of what they work on.)
There’s a spoof organization called People for Ethical Treatment of Robots.
Update: I see there’s another organization: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots. On the FAQ page they say:
Q: Are you serious?
A: The ASPCR is, and will continue to be, exactly as serious as robots are sentient.
There seems to be a lot of academic and popular discussion about robot rights and machine consciousness, but yeah, I can’t name offhand another organization explicitly focused on this topic. (To some degree, Sentience Institute has this as a long-run goal, and many organizations care about it as part of what they work on.)
There’s a spoof organization called People for Ethical Treatment of Robots.
Update: I see there’s another organization: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots. On the FAQ page they say: