@ngaylinn@tech.lgbt Whether intentionally or not the rhetoric you report being used by this podcast guest fits into a larger trend of using dehumanizing and eugenic language to discuss "AI". Those willing to suggest machines will surpass people at what many of us think of as deeply human activities aid those--like capitalists, or state actors--who want people to actually be machines. Machines can be owned and operated, or discarded when they break. They can be counted and classified and controlled. They don't demand a say in what's done to and with them.

I likewise wonder how often we as a species are going to invent something, fall in love with it, and then pretend people work that way. Ovid was writing about the perils of this 2,000 years ago yet we persist in repeating the same folly.