A harsh critique says parts of the AI scene have lost touch with ordinary human ethics
Intelligent_Elk5879 · reddit · 2026-08-04
- The author argues that many people in AI hold a highly idiosyncratic ethical framework, mixing game theory with a kind of detached, self-referential worldview.
- The post claims that some frontier-lab people seem deeply disconnected from ordinary human intuitions and can come to doubt whether non-researchers are even “real.”
- It frames the AI world as a closed culture that borrows from sci-fi-style debates and internal status games rather than broader human philosophy.
- The overall point is a cultural critique of how some AI researchers think about morality, other people, and their own role in the world.
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