• Our attitudes towards AI reveal how we really feel about human intelligence

    Our attitudes towards AI reveal how we really feel about human intelligence
    We’re in the untenable position of regarding the AI as alien because we’re already in the position of alienating each otherThe idea that superintelligent robots are alien invaders coming to “steal our jobs” reveals profound shortcomings in the way we think about work, value, and intelligence itself. Labor is not a zero-sum game, and robots aren’t an “other” that competes with us. Like any technology, they’re part of us, growing out of civilization