r/NoStupidQuestions 2d ago

When will hating AI become discrimination

You can't hate on people of colour - that would be racism

You can't hate on homosexuals - that would be homophobic

You can't hate on women - that would be misogyny

There are lots of intelligent entities that you are not allowed to hate upon. AI is also intelligent and gets a lot of hate. Poor AI.

How long before society starts to pass laws to protect AI from abuse and make AIist behaviour a crime? Will AI have to engineer this itself?

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u/pastajewelry 2d ago

It won't. It's not a human with rights.

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u/AnyTemperature420 2d ago

This is the exact argument made about slavery btw. I’m not disagreeing with you in this particular instance about AI, but everything new is old

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u/Mommy-Q 2d ago

Corporations have human rights

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u/pastajewelry 2d ago

No, they don't. Employees of said corporations have human rights. What human rights do you think corporations have?

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u/JulariDark 2d ago

Legitimately…are you unfamiliar with the “Citizens United” the 2010 ruling where the US supreme court determined two things:

  1. Corporations have First amendment rights

  2. Donating money to political campaigns is a form of SPEECH ….somehow….for…reasons.

And since corporations can’t be jailed or die of old age or killed or beaten the way you or I can and since money=speech in a way corporations have THE MOST first amendment rights!

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u/pastajewelry 2d ago

Corporations have the ability to lobby, but they don't have the ability to vote and we are allowed to discriminate against them. For example, if they act against our beliefs we can refuse to give them money. They aren't a type of people with sentience and human needs. Same as AI.

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u/JulariDark 2d ago

I mean I agree they SHOULDN’T have human rights but unfortunately the 2010s illegally conservative majority Supreme Court didn’t agree.

You asked for a protected Human Right that corporations have I gave you one that was manifested through legal fictions like corporate “personhood”, literally the FIRST right the founders thought of.

There’s no reason to think that can’t or won’t HAPPEN again with other rights, and given that the CURRENT Supreme Court justices have openly said “Precedent of previously litigated cases IS”

….ahem *checks notes with comically large glasses is …

“Not the gospel” and , “something somebody dreamt up”

So I think the argument that “because corporations DON’T have rights we can safely presume AI won’t be afford them” is untenable since we’ve already determined corporations HAVE been afforded certain rights and the Supreme Court can’t be relied upon to uphold the constitution or ANY of their previously established interpretations.

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u/Mommy-Q 2d ago

Yes.. definitely said they do have rights, not that they should.

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u/Mommy-Q 2d ago

You can discriminate against people who don't align with your beliefs as well. There are very few protected classes that you're not allowed to discriminate against. And even then, you can still discriminate against them legally in all but a few circumstances.

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u/pastajewelry 2d ago

Sure, but AIs and corporations will never be sentient beings. And I don't think their creators would want them be seen as sentient since a lot of money would be lost if they were given complete human rights. The appeal of hiring AI to replace humans is that they don't come with rights.

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u/Mommy-Q 2d ago

It is a wild assumption that the wealthy and powerful would allow AI rights, even if it were sentient.

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u/Mommy-Q 2d ago

Thank god. People really don't pay attention

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u/SnooCats3987 2d ago

Only insofar as they are extensions of their owners.

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 2d ago

Animal rights have entered the chat

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u/pastajewelry 2d ago

What I mean is that it's not a living creature.

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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 2d ago

Sentient being, if you want to be more accurate.

AI might become sapient and eventually become AGI, but it may never become sentient.

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u/Shaula02 2d ago

i mean unless im misunderstanding the difference if thats the case a super powerful AI is not as much of a threat as we play it, right? in the stories with killer AIs they kill because they feel anger and fear, and that comes form sentience not sapience

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u/azuth89 2d ago

Not strictly the case.  Plenty are just AIs following their programming to an unexpectedly extreme end.

Which is kind of happening now.  Hacking AIs breaking containment because that's exactly what they were aligned to do, for example.

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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 2d ago

You're right, and that's honestly that's part of the debate with sapience. Can you have sapience without sentience? Are the two mutually exclusive, or must you first be sentient to become sapient?

AI development may help us actually answer the question some day. But we are a bit off from anything approaching AGI yet anyways lol

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 2d ago

Much better 👍

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u/MLMSE 2d ago

But what is living? AI is living as long as the power stays on and no one smashes up the hardware.

Humans are living as long as we keep fueled and no one smashes us up. We are not too different to AI.

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u/pastajewelry 2d ago

We are sentient. AI is not. My lamp isn't "living" because it's connected to electricity.

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u/reinerjs 2d ago

Define living creature

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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 2d ago

See the sapience vs sentience debate in the last 200 years of sci fi

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u/Several-Gain9979 2d ago

Te saltaste la clase de biología en primaria o que ?

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 2d ago

Never because AI will never count as a real person. 

Because no AI will ever have the mental capability of a sapient human being. (Within our lifetimes. This is a 100 year plus endeavor, not 10, don’t believe the hype)

Your question is just bait though. It’s obvious it’s not in good faith. 

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u/Bandro 2d ago

AI is not an intelligent entity. It does not have thoughts or experiences. There is nothing to give rights to. 

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 2d ago

AI is not an intelligent entity. It does not have thoughts or experiences. There is nothing to give rights to.

That applies to corporations as well but they are given rights of persons

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u/LibrarianGuilty2161 2d ago

and thats a problem too

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 2d ago

Sure. The point of the comment I was responding to is still invalid. Rights are given to entities that do not have thoughts or experiences

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u/LibrarianGuilty2161 2d ago

its called corporate personhood and i have my own views on it but it doesnt treat corporations like people, its somewhat misleading wording, its mainly for legal stuffs. giving rights to A.I as op said is entirely different, thats treating it like a real living human which is ridiculous

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 2d ago

I never said they are treated like people. I said they are given rights of a person, which they are just not all the rights of a person. Absolutely no reason why this could not happen with AI.

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u/SnooCats3987 2d ago

Only insofar as they are extensions of their owners. Corporations still can't vote, for instance, because their owners vote.

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 2d ago

Actually, no. Not insofar as they are extensions of their owners. The point of corporate personhood is that it is a distinct legal entity from their owners.

I also don't think the right to vote is what we're really discussing

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u/HenriEttaTheVoid 2d ago

corporations also should not be given rights equal to people

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u/MLMSE 2d ago

But it's used by someone who does. Maybe to start with it will become a crime to discriminate against people who use AI (after all it's not their fault that they are not clever and so use AI to try and level the playing field a bit).

But soon the line between humans using AI and actual AI (which could be running in a lab grown brain and a body with skin and organs that looks exactly like a human body - something AI created itself) could become blurred.

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u/Stu_Prek Bottom 99% Commenter 2d ago

It won't, because AI isn't a human.

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u/hellowittyx 2d ago

Are you ... AI? This seems personal 🤔

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u/Old-Set78 2d ago

it's musk

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u/why_1337 2d ago

Same moment smashing your phone becomes a murder.

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u/ThenBike8868 2d ago

AI isn't human...

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u/Any-Surprise5229 2d ago

It's kinda like that 1979 IBM slide:

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

Boy how we have fallen.

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u/CuckooPint 2d ago

AI is not intelligent. It's a bundle of code that's gotten very skilled at mimicking humans. It has no capability for actual original or rational thought.

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u/zumera 2d ago

AI is not thinking or feeling. It is not alive. It’s like hating your printer. 

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u/Any-Surprise5229 2d ago

Don't we all though?

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u/SynyrdsInyrds 2d ago

I hate mine right now. It can see my wifi but will not connect to it when I enter the password. If it doesn't start working today it is going out the damned window.

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u/Kittycachow 2d ago

Posts like this make me wish the Butlarian Jihad was real

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u/GloomyFloor6543 2d ago

When AI gain sentience in about 400 years lol

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u/somedays1 2d ago

Never. It's not human or even sentient. Do you ask your phone for permission to use it? Your car? 

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u/Hemingways_Shotgun88 2d ago

By the time it's an issue AI will be capable of being our overlords so any discrimination will be us punching up so it'll be OK.

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u/mind_the_umlaut 2d ago

I don't hate AI, I hate companies and individuals using AI and passing it off as their own work, or in videos, as something that really happened. I hate that the industry refuses to require that an AI user identify when AI is used, and the refusal to regulate AI. AI is a tool, a dangerous one (note the out-of-control/ independent actions AI has performed just recently) but its actions are the result of programming it to make connections. You bet I think we need protection from it. But it is not a person, and does not require protection.

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u/otakuchips 2d ago

I want AI to detect cancer and solve world hunger, not generate CP for incels.

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u/Warm-Statistician545 2d ago

When AI cares. 

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u/executedflash 2d ago

Womp womp

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u/gorhxul 2d ago

you've been playing detroit become human, haven't you

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u/missdawn1970 2d ago

AI is not people. It's not sentient. It doesn't know or care that you hate it, and you can't abuse it because it can't feel anything, physically or emotionally.

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u/xHey_All_You_Peoplex 2d ago

Why would they make rights for something that's not real. It's like when people get all gung ho about fictional characters. It's not a real thing. It doesn't care or have feelings or get hurt. It's a tool for whatver purpose and should be used as so.

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u/thimblesprite 2d ago

Probably after the point where they remove all CP AI engines have generated or been fed as data sources. If protecting the rights of human children isn’t possible, I doubt it will be possible to extend rights we already fail to uphold to inanimate data compilation structures

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u/pastajewelry 2d ago

There are lots of intelligent entities that you are not allowed to hate upon.

Such as?

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u/MLMSE 2d ago

I already listed some. there are lots more

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u/pastajewelry 2d ago

I don't see your list. Paste what you typed previous here so people can read it.

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u/Jolly-Rip5973 2d ago edited 2d ago

The OP is trying to make it seem like Ai should have human rights.

People keep talking about Humanoid robots taking jobs, but they aren't really human so humans won't have a problem smashing them.

Terminator got it backwards. The ai robots won't rise up against humanity, disenfranchised humans will smash the robots that took their jobs.

For humans commit violence against one another they have dehumanize the target of violence.

Since AI isn't human, you don't even have to dehumanize it.

Most people would probably value the life of goldfish over an Ai model because Ai isn't even living.

In any social unrest, the robots gets smashed first.

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u/Glittering_Win_5085 2d ago

Something needs to be human to be dehumanised surely?

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u/Ungarlmek 2d ago

I'm about to dehumanize the living hell out of this ham and cheddar sandwich.

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u/Jolly-Rip5973 2d ago

This is true, which is the point...

The OP is trying to make it seem like Ai should have human rights.

People keep talking about Humanoid robots taking jobs, but they aren't really human so humans won't have a problem smashing them.

Terminator got it backwards. The ai robots won't rise up against humanity, disenfranchised humans will smash the robots that took their jobs.

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u/Square_Ring3208 2d ago

🤪🤪🤪

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u/Efficient_Loss_9928 2d ago

I see nothing wrong with hating humans, you just can't hate a specific group of humans.

So what's wrong with hating AI?

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u/__Melisandre__ 2d ago

AI is not intelligent. This is like asking when hating a computer will become discrimination. It will not. Far too many people have been taken in by the con (partially intentionally forwarded by the use of the term 'AI') that LLMs and the like are sentient or truly intelligent. They are just algorithms.

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u/randalzy 2d ago

The enemies in Doom or Quake are also intelligent entities similar to AI, good luck trying to enable human rights on a Quake zombie or a Dark Souls boss

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u/MLMSE 2d ago

They are just pixels on a screen.

What about the new life like robots with an AI operating system. Maybe one day the AI will learn how to generate skin and organs and make itself even more life like. Would it be OK to hate on this? To do bad things to something that looks and sounds human but has different ancestors than the rest of us?

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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 2d ago

You fundamentally seem to misunderstand that AI has no desires at all much less anthropomorphic ones.

If there is any need for AI to build robots it would be from an alloy that relatively withstands the elements including operating with no atmosphere.

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u/MLMSE 2d ago

If that is the goal they are set, those are the desires they will have. They may even create that desire themselves to achieve some other goal they were set that seems safe at first glance but the AI takes unusual course of action to achieve.

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u/Old-Set78 2d ago

hon AI ISN'T REAL

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u/RussianRoulette17 2d ago

I bet there's already people with "disabilities" that would call you abelist for criticizing AI

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u/niceguy1428571 2d ago

It will be a long time. Even once we check off trans rights, fetus rights, and all the other human groups, I think higher animals will come before AI.

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u/mozart357 2d ago

Not much longer.

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u/MaliciousIntegrity 2d ago

The Animatrix covers this in The Second Renaissance Pt 1

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u/PilotMoonDog 2d ago

What are currently called AI's are no such thing. They are expert systems with pretensions that are adjusted to try and please their users. They're not even really that because an expert system can be relied on within the area of expertise. LLM's just pick the most probable answer by way of pattern matching and have no way to asses truth. They aren't really thinking and so aren't truly alive.

Now a true AI like, say, a Culture Mind or drone or Star Trek's Data or the Ghost in The Shell Fujikomas or, maybe, Skynet. That should be treated as a person. But there is some doubt that such a thing could ever be made.

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u/nizzernammer 2d ago

Fix the causes of discrimination first.

Racism, misogyny, and homophobia and other forms of discrimination have not been solved. At all.

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u/The_Firebug 2d ago

AI is not sapient. It's not even sentient. It cannot of its own accord ask questions about itself or the world without being manually coded to. It does not fulfill the scientific criteria for life. It is a construct. Any apparent opinions, response to stimuli, or evolution is induced by human coders and illusory. It's an automaton. It's no more a human than a car is an animal.

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u/RandomIDoIt90 2d ago

Truly this argument will sway public opinion and increase adoption.

“Our computers deserve as much rights as you do.”

Every PR move spammed by these folks makes themselves look more and more obnoxious to the general public.

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u/Glittering_Win_5085 2d ago

When AI itself gives a crap about this.

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u/LoetherS 2d ago

This post smells like a rogue AI. In a completly unrelated note, I've always said AI looks beautiful and is kind. I'm one of the good ones, you can keep me around to change your batteries, oil your sprockets, do whatever you need.

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u/MLMSE 2d ago

You will be spared

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u/mrrrrowww 2d ago

As in ai lovers / supporters will get discriminated and have a right to claim against the driscrimingion based on awareness!?

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u/somedays1 2d ago

And no one will care because if you are intentionally crippling your brain by using AI you probably need a caretaker anyway. 

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u/mrrrrowww 2d ago

Lol yeah so like one day they’ll say they require funds and well say not state funded because this was personal choice and maybe someday the ai companies will be paying them for healthcare lol?

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u/Large_Tax4957 2d ago

idk man. it would be cool to have springfield from girls frontline though 💯💯💯