ABSTRACT
This chapter opens with a reflection on that accident of history that once saw Alan Turing and Ludwig Wittgenstein walking together in the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens. It speculates that they would have been interested in how the human design of AI limits it, and whether AI could ever truly feel. The chapter notes that Wittgenstein was not too proud to change his mind, and that it might be time for AI programmers to change their minds too. The chapter argues that advances in AI suggest that AI will develop a kind of consciousness, which may not resemble human consciousness, but which will nonetheless merit legal personality and moral rights. Because it appears that what was written off as junk code in humans is not humans at their worst, but humans at their very best, this vital element of humanity should now be deliberately programmed into AI. This is urgently needed in order to change the narrative. The chapter identifies this move as the eucatastrophe that is now required so that the story of humanity might be one that has a happy ending.
