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"Before that, many times robots have been viewed as hostile or you know, potentially threatening to humanity and Asimov said: what would happened if they were humane, if they would exhibit human characteristics, how would we treat them? Would they be treated as a minority?... [1/X]

...Would they be treated as the ultimate minority of like everyone looking down on them because you know here are these machines exhibiting human traits, threatening once again?" [2/X]

What if the ultimate achievement of AI was not superintelligence in the purely rational sense, but intelligence as an expansion of our capacity to empathize with other beings? [4/X]

What if AI challenged our own inability to transcend the limits of our cognition -- to understand worlds that are already around us, yet remain so distant from us? The world of trees. Of insects. Of fish. Of dogs. And tomorrow, perhaps, the world of AIs. [5/X]

Even within our own species, even between two supposedly rational people, we barely understand each other. Communication issues are not a minor matter. [6/X]