ethics-empathy-circle

What problem does it solve?

This Skill resolves moral uncertainty by helping you determine whether an entity should receive moral consideration using Jaron Lanier’s Circle of Empathy, preventing category errors like granting rights to AI or software.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Three-zone moral triage: Classifies the entity as inside, borderline, or outside the moral circle based on suffering capacity, personhood, and moral agency.
• Redirects empathy to the correct target: Identifies whose interests, rights, and labor are actually at stake when the entity is outside the circle.
• Human downgrading safety check: Detects and names proposals that force humans to accommodate the system instead of the system serving humans.
• Use case: When deciding whether to treat an AI system as a “person” or assign rights, this framework helps you reach a defensible moral placement and an action-oriented conclusion.

Quick Start

Use the skill on the entity you’re evaluating by asking: “Apply ethics-empathy-circle to this case about whether an AI assistant deserves rights.”