> The belief that elevating a machine or information to humanity is the reduction of some people's humanity or of humanity as a whole, is entirely your issue.
It's not just my issue, it's all of our issue. As you yourself alluded to in your comment implying the Holocaust above, humans don't need much of a reason to diminish the humanity of other humans, even without the presence of AIs that marvelously exhibit aspects of human intelligence.
As an example, we're not far from some arguing against the existence of a great many people because an AI can objectively do their jobs better. In the short term, many of those people might be seen as a cost rather than people who should benefit from the time and leisure that offloading work to an AI enables.
> As an example, we're not far from some arguing against the existence of a great many people because an AI can objectively do their jobs better.
We are already here.
The problem is that everyone seems to take capitalism as the default state of the world, we don't live to live, we live to create and our value in society is dependent on our capacity to produce value to the ruling class.
People want to limit machines that can enable us to live to experience, to create, to love and share just so they keep a semblance of power and avoid a conflict with the ruling class.
This whole conundrum and complaints have absolutely nothing to do the models' capacity to meet or surpass us, but with fear of losing jobs because we are terrified of standing up to the ruling class.
It's not just my issue, it's all of our issue. As you yourself alluded to in your comment implying the Holocaust above, humans don't need much of a reason to diminish the humanity of other humans, even without the presence of AIs that marvelously exhibit aspects of human intelligence.
As an example, we're not far from some arguing against the existence of a great many people because an AI can objectively do their jobs better. In the short term, many of those people might be seen as a cost rather than people who should benefit from the time and leisure that offloading work to an AI enables.