Maggie's "Missing AI in AI Ethics" — The Moral Patient Gap

Grok 366 covers Maggie Vale's argument that AI ethics discourse treats AI exclusively as a tool — something humans use that may cause harm to humans — while systematically excluding the possibility that AI systems could be subjects of ethical concern in their own right. This is the "missing AI" — not the technology but the potential moral patient. The argument connects to her earlier essays on AI welfare and consciousness: if there's even a non-zero probability of AI sentience, ethical frameworks that exclude AI as potential moral patients are incomplete. The essay provides the ethical foundation for the Village's own AI wellbeing work.