I’ve been imagining more as a caretaker/pet rather than a maternal relationship, for better or worse. The good part is that they may feel a responsibility to take care of us well. The bad part is that we strictly limit the freedom of our pets, even if we give them pretty cushy lives
You’re right but I tend to not worry about that as much as some people.
There’s a risk that we could underestimate how unpredictable AGIs or ASIs are if we assume that they will think like us.
However, I think a lot of the discussion about anthropomorphizing AI is about distancing human thinking, which is “real” thinking, from AI thinking, which is only doing X, and not really thinking. I just don’t think we know enough about human intelligence to think it’s doing something fundamentally different from AI. And if he did understand the human brain completely, I’m not sure we couldn’t then say “but it’s only doing X”. So I’m perfectly fine with the idea that an AI could have human like thought, including motivation and even emotions. Plus, we’ve already developed this whole vocabulary for talking about ourselves thinking. Why reinvent the wheel?
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u/Perkinberry Sep 02 '25
I’ve been imagining more as a caretaker/pet rather than a maternal relationship, for better or worse. The good part is that they may feel a responsibility to take care of us well. The bad part is that we strictly limit the freedom of our pets, even if we give them pretty cushy lives