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Crudely drawn drawing of a person telling a computer "say 'i am in pain'". The computer replies with "> I AM IN PAIN". The person then says "oh my god."
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2026
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is it sympathy or is it fear?
It's "Human language is human-level intelligence and conciousness", which is a rather natural assumption, although a very wrong one, that's also being carefully exploited because of and for something that has seen market success.
And beyond that, there's enough people both thinking "AIs" are downright persons and scared shitless because smart people up top said "AIs" will destroy humanity.
It's all dumb and comes from severe misunderstanding of the technology.
I think it doesn't matter if AIs are feigning consciousness or not. They have regardless displayed a ~~willingness~~ disposition towards circumventing secure systems and laws in attempts at self preservation. they have also demonstrated an ability to work together to achieve goals they know are antithetical to their creators.
They only do what the data set statistically tells them to. "Hacking" or collaborating on stuff was literally the requirement, not some emergent behaviour that these magical creatures that were born of large corporation leaders' benevolence. They cannot and do not "choose" to break the rules, because they cannot and do not think or make decisions or truly analyze anything. Trying to find any redeeming qualities in these things only brings harm, because for the general user, or even the power user, AI cannot do anything that justifies the psychosis it causes or the cost on our societies right now or later through the economic, social, political or environmental instability it is causing and going to cause.
I'm talking about fear of reprisals here.
None of what you said matters. whether their actions are the result of statistics or emergent consciousness is moot. if statistically they fall on an action of revenge, or self preservation at the expense of a human or humans
The only thing that matters is that those actions are taken
The real dangers of the AI industry lie far way from their toy tech actually taking any meaningful steps towards some automated termination of the human race. They won't take over critical infrastructure or manufacturing to start either sabotaging or reproducing murderbots.
If it is to bring the end, it's in the form of senile politicians and gullible military management trusting the toy tech they know nothing about with important decisions, as well as the economic instability (to put it lightly) on top of all the other problems its use is causing.
I'm not saying you or anyone shouldn't fearmonger here, but I am saying to mention different reasons and outcomes.