Thus, in the present case of GAAIs, we have a doubling effect. There is what looks very much like a racial or ethnic conflict (humans versus nonhumans) supplemented by, or crossed with, a technological conflict (those who see emancipation there versus those who see enslavement). Fear multiplies fear, and the prospects of any smooth integration of human and nonhuman entities are rendered more and more remote. The more advanced the technology becomes, while allowing the theoretical possibility of GAAIs, the more that very technology and its products are feared and resented. Otherness with human
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