Anthropomorphizing the technology is just one more way humans try to escape accountability. “The AI contributed a patch”, “the AI wrote the blog post”, “the car hit the pedestrian” and “the knife killed the victim”, those are all the same framing.
AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.
What a time to be alive.
Clankbrained techbros, watching somebody with two sock puppets on their hands hitting a homeless person with a tree branch: socks and puppets were invented so society needs to accept this new reality and adapt.
What if the sock puppets are actually intelligent but in a way we cannot yet comprehend. What are our ethical responsibilities in a world with far more socks than humans, that could become puppets at any time. We need to invest in responsible sock darning and better puppeteer training.
But the beating continues, our clankbrained assailant yelling “ethically this is a gray area it’s very complicated”. The victim may or may not have been pleading for their life. They’re silent now so who can say.
