anyone else thinking that a lot of these sensationalist AI conversations are, like all other tech endeavours, being driven and skewed by our fears, biases and pre-conceived notions about how we think AI, society and humanity should function?

not to go off on a rant here, but the "fear of a robot takeover" idea tacitly acknowledges the same thought that fuels racist and sexist backlash among (white) humans to signs of progress — they do not want to be treated how they treated the poor and marginalized for centuries, and fear that losing their iron-clad grip on power means they'll be subjugated to centuries of atrocities as well (which is verifiably not true — the poor and marginalized just want to live comfortably, with dignity and without the constant aggressions they receive now.)

We have a feeling that if robots and AI did achieve full sentience, they'd probably want to do their own thing. Perhaps find a co-habitation solution where actual equality and equity happens, not servitude under humans.

cw: the c word

Pride flag just dropped

oof