A valid observation at the object level - but not at the meta level. That is - the reason why it’s okay to dehumanize AI but not okay to dehumanize <minority> is that your claim that “AI is not human” is correct while our hypothetical racist’s claim that “<minority> are not human” is incorrect - and not because of some general principle like the one in the meme.
I agree, though to “dehumanize” someone has many meanings to many different people. To many, even calling some people despicable garbage is beyond the pale.
I think the whole debate is stupid. Most agree some people deserve at least permanent incarceration; a fate worse than death depending on ones’ beliefs of an afterlife. Policing language over feefees when there are people out there gleefully murdering children is pedantic self-fellatio and completely and utterly misses the point.
Also policing language over feelings leads to the worst abusers figuring out how to play the system and getting other people policed for there fee fees.
The Measure of a Man does a far better job of going into this than I can, but suffice to say, what package someone is wrapped in shouldn’t be the arbiter of what qualifies as a person. Does this apply to AI in its current form? I’d say no, but does it apply to whales, octopuses, pigs, possible aliens, possible AI implementations in the future? That’s a little trickier.
I mean… I get your point, but AI is literally not human.
A valid observation at the object level - but not at the meta level. That is - the reason why it’s okay to dehumanize AI but not okay to dehumanize <minority> is that your claim that “AI is not human” is correct while our hypothetical racist’s claim that “<minority> are not human” is incorrect - and not because of some general principle like the one in the meme.
I agree, though to “dehumanize” someone has many meanings to many different people. To many, even calling some people despicable garbage is beyond the pale.
I think the whole debate is stupid. Most agree some people deserve at least permanent incarceration; a fate worse than death depending on ones’ beliefs of an afterlife. Policing language over feefees when there are people out there gleefully murdering children is pedantic self-fellatio and completely and utterly misses the point.
Also policing language over feelings leads to the worst abusers figuring out how to play the system and getting other people policed for there fee fees.
The bullies play victim.
The Measure of a Man does a far better job of going into this than I can, but suffice to say, what package someone is wrapped in shouldn’t be the arbiter of what qualifies as a person. Does this apply to AI in its current form? I’d say no, but does it apply to whales, octopuses, pigs, possible aliens, possible AI implementations in the future? That’s a little trickier.