We cannot allow puppeteers to blame their puppets.
From the 1970s until his passing, Rod Hull was partnered by a silent menace called Emu, a puppet operated by Hull’s own hand.
Even without the reported use of the puppet as an excuse to touch people in inappropriate ways, the antics were presented as not Hull’s fault, because the bird Emu was responsible for the havoc and harm.
We can’t allow bad faith operators to design puppets just so that they have the frail excuse that it is not their fault if their creations perform acts against individuals, groups, organizations or humanity as a whole.
AGI is a perfect excuse for very selfish people to exert power via a puppet, and showing us that their hands are not inside it at the time. It’s a smug obfuscation of what we all plainly see.
We can’t allow AI owners a ‘Hull Defence’ for any actions their machines perpetrate.
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