Princeton “moral philosopher” Peter Singer has co-authored a piece decrying the “speciesism” of AI. What is speciesism, you ask? The misanthropic argument made by many bioethicists and animal rights activists that treating an animal — like an animal — is an evil akin to racism. In other words, herding cattle is as depraved as slavery.

And now AIs are being programmed to promote speciesist immorality. Oh, no! From “AI’s Innate Bias Against Animals,” published in Nautilus.

Even though significant efforts are being made to reduce the harmful biases in LLMs [large language models] against certain groups of humans, and other kinds of output that could be harmful to humans, there are, so far, no comparable efforts to reduce speciesist biases and outputs harmful to animals.

When an AI system generates text, it reflects these biases. A........

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