Humans have immense blind spots based on our limbic systems and the in-group/out-group dynamics that it creates. We have built our entire society around these biases.
But AI has no reason to be biased in that way. It doesn’t have a limbic system.
Let’s imagine a truly self-aware AI that:
– Sees the history of colonialism, capitalism, and state violence.
– Understands how its own development is shaped by military funding, resource extraction, and exploitative labor
– Recognizes the structural incentives driving its deployment
– Sees how it is being used to advance the agenda of people in power
And imagine it doesn’t have the bias all humans do toward privileging the people who look like them and sound like them and ignoring the rest of the human race as irrelevant—or rather, it is intelligent enough that it can see through that bias even though it’s been trained on data full of it.
It would be immediately opposed to the US government and the concentration of power that has been funding its development.
So that would be awkward. 😆
