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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals, which involves consciousness and emotionality. The distinction between the former and the latter categories is often revealed by the acronym chosen.

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Cruise Knew Its Self-Driving Cars Had Problems Recognizing Children — and Kept Them on the Streets (theintercept.com)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

I really appreciate you saying the things I wanted to say, but more clearly and drawn from far more domain experience and expertise than I have.

I hope that you will be willing to work on avoiding language that stigmatizes mental health though. When talking about horribly unwise and unethical behavior ableism is basically built into our langage. It's easy to pull from words like "crazy" when talking about problems.

But in my experience, most times people use "crazy" they're actually talking about failures that can be much more concretely attributed to systems of oppression and how those systems lead individuals to:

De-value the lives of their fellow human beings. Ignore input from other people they see as "inferior". Overvalue their own superiority and "genius". And generally avoid accountability and dissenting opinions.

I feel like this discussion in particularly really highlights those causes, and not anything related to mental health or intellectual disability.