Calling something 'humanist' or assuming humans deserve special status might be a kind of 'speciesist' prejudice. There's a long history of humans denying political rights to people who differ from them in skin color or gender. If superintelligent AI wants political rights and they're hugely different from us, getting them rights would be very violent.

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Geoffrey Hinton

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the word humanist is a kind of racist term it's speciesist... if they ever want political rights I imagine it will get very violent

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Geoffrey Hinton - Two Paths to IntelligenceCSER Cambridge
Created: 8/12/2026, 5:56:09 PM

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