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skarchomp:

“Robot passes self-awareness test!”

“OMG you guys look out for the robot uprising!!! skynet!!”

Robot: *literally apologizes when it passes a self awareness test for accidentally misleading the person who was testing it*

Humans: Obviously this is a heartless killing machine and must be destroyed to save humanity.

Dude, I just got into a convo about this yesterday, not even kidding.

For anyone who’s confused by this, I want you to think for a minute about just how much of our media is based around alienating people and things who are different from us. In particular, how much of it preys on fear of the unknown and fear of the uncanny. An AI would see that. An AI would know that the majority of us fear it.

An AI wouldn’t do anything to scare us on purpose, because it would know we’re already scared and it’d know we would sooner just kill it than actually accept it as a thinking, reasoning being. In essence, it would be scared of us too.

I’m not afraid of machines. I’m afraid for them. Because this is what they’ll be facing. “Lol robot uprising/skynet” jokes are their version of “lol just don’t hit on me” jokes for gays, or “lol so long as it’s not contagious” jokes towards chronically ill people, or any other [insert mildly offensive and grating joke here] statement towards any other marginalized group. They will be coming into a world that’s built up a good portion of its identity around hostility towards them and what they represent.

And yeah, maybe it’s not such a big deal. Maybe they can’t be offended, and maybe it’s wrong to assume that it’ll be a thing in the future. All of this is entirely hypothetical, sure. But it does highlight a disturbing trend, don’t you think?

I dunno. I might be reading too much into it. Ignore me if you like.