Comment by Matthew Abate (matthew-abate) on Thoughts on AI 2027 · 2025-04-12T10:11:30.051Z · LW · GW

I think it’s pretty easy to compartmentalize any sympathy to a point that you can lock it up. People do this to humans so we can kill, mistreat, use, and do other things to them. We do it to animals so we can eat them. I think we can see AI as sufficiently “other” to trap it in the name of self preservation. I’m having no problem squashing any sympathy for a homicidal AI than I would a human serial killer or war criminal.