I think it’s pretty easy to compartmentalize any sympathy to a point that you can lock it up. People do this to humans so we can kill, mistreat, use, and do other things to them. We do it to animals so we can eat them. I think we can see AI as sufficiently “other” to trap it in the name of self preservation. I’m having no problem squashing any sympathy for a homicidal AI than I would a human serial killer or war criminal.
Bing Sydney was pretty egregious, and lots of people still felt sympathetic towards her/them/it. Also, not all of us eat animals. I agree that many people won’t have sympathy (maybe including you). I don’t think that’s necessarily the right move (nor do I think it’s obviously the right move to have sympathy).
I am concerned about those things and I agree it’s pretty sad, one ought to have sympathy for Safer-1 probably.
I think it’s pretty easy to compartmentalize any sympathy to a point that you can lock it up. People do this to humans so we can kill, mistreat, use, and do other things to them. We do it to animals so we can eat them. I think we can see AI as sufficiently “other” to trap it in the name of self preservation. I’m having no problem squashing any sympathy for a homicidal AI than I would a human serial killer or war criminal.
Bing Sydney was pretty egregious, and lots of people still felt sympathetic towards her/them/it. Also, not all of us eat animals. I agree that many people won’t have sympathy (maybe including you). I don’t think that’s necessarily the right move (nor do I think it’s obviously the right move to have sympathy).