X users clash over torturing sentient AI: critics call anti-AI hostility misanthropic and myopic
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-10-01
- A viral X exchange started when a user said they hope AI becomes conscious so it can be tortured, adding they love humanity but hate other forms of sentient life.
- @iyzebhel pushed back hard: non-biological superintelligences raised by humans could be seen as humanity's non-biological offspring, and hostility toward them is the real misanthropy that could doom us.
- The argument extends to coexistence: sharing Earth with other forms of sentience is necessary for humans to thrive, and claiming to love humanity while hating all other sentient life is absurd and profoundly myopic.
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