Philosophers sign petition telling AI companies: 'we do not accept these terms'
birchlse · x · 2026-11-11
Eli Shupe, Associate Professor of Philosophy at UT Arlington, has signed a petition launched by DONOTACCEPTai urging the public to reject AI companies' terms, arguing the companies themselves admit what they're building might be catastrophic — and that even aligned AI's rewards would come at the cost of displacement, disempowerment, and deskilling of much of humanity.
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