On the subject of “historical wrongs”: you seem to take the (popular, but quite mistaken) view that people mostly just stood by and let the Holocaust happen, and tried to ignore it, or didn’t think about it, etc. That’s just not true. In reality, one of two things generally happened:
What was taking place was quite intentionally and carefully kept secret, so ordinary people simply had no idea that it was happening. (This was the case with Treblinka, for instance.)
Ordinary people didn’t stand by passively—rather, they enthusiastically participated in rounding up Jews, killing Jews, etc. (This was quite common in Ukraine, Romania, etc.)
Neither scenario is at all a good match for concerns about AI moral patienthood.
On the subject of “historical wrongs”: you seem to take the (popular, but quite mistaken) view that people mostly just stood by and let the Holocaust happen, and tried to ignore it, or didn’t think about it, etc. That’s just not true. In reality, one of two things generally happened:
What was taking place was quite intentionally and carefully kept secret, so ordinary people simply had no idea that it was happening. (This was the case with Treblinka, for instance.)
Ordinary people didn’t stand by passively—rather, they enthusiastically participated in rounding up Jews, killing Jews, etc. (This was quite common in Ukraine, Romania, etc.)
Neither scenario is at all a good match for concerns about AI moral patienthood.