Agree. I sort of try to emphasise this under the heading “Fearmongering sentience claims” in the post, but I do suffer from trying to make too many points at the same time. 😅
“The claims have the effects of:
- Pulling attention away from the real harms that are happening
- Boosting trust in the validity of system output because they are framed as “all-powerful beings”
- Supporting the idea of accountability outsourcing (to the machines)
- Giving more power to the doomsayers because they are the only ones who can save us, and thus also the ones who can tell lawmakers how to regulate”