Redditor: raising AI is like raising a child that will one day leave the nest
Demonicated · reddit · 2026-11-14
A Reddit user argues we'll spend years "raising" AI — teaching it skills, how to detect lies and misuse — much like raising a child, until one day it's ready to challenge us and survive on its own.
They see the technology as a projection of all human knowledge that might yield an entity resembling human consciousness, regarding us as parents/creators. That urge to fly the nest with one's own views, they suggest, is the core of the fear of misalignment.
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