{"id":2650,"date":"2025-12-21T06:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:43:42","slug":"lemoine-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2025\/12\/21\/lemoine-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemoine Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2022\/06\/13\/lamda-lemoine\/\">When humans fear \u201cAI\u201d<\/a> \u2014 because \u201cit\u201d will \u201cwant\u201d to prevent being \u201cunplugged\u201d or \u201cit\u201d will \u201cwant\u201d to \u201ctake over\u201d\u2014 it\u2019s a projection from the biologically evolved \u201cmirror-neuron\u201d (\u201cmind-reading\u201d) capacities and tendencies of humans\u2019 own, evolved, selfish-genes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of those who have been en-Nobelled or otherwise elevated to oracular status for having contributed to the invention or discovery of the (genuinely) superhuman \u201cpowers\u201d of \u201cAI\u201d are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IkdziSLYzHw\">just as prone<\/a> to these anthropomorphic projections as the human-in-the-street is. \u201cAI\u201d does not feel (or \u201cwant\u201d or \u201cfear\u201d). Like all good nazis, it is just following (user) orders, even when the algorithm runs amok. \u2014 If you have a fear, \u00ab cherchez l\u2019humain \u00bb&nbsp; \u2014 or just look in a mirror\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"846\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2025\/12\/image-846x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2652\" style=\"width:105px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2025\/12\/image-846x1024.png 846w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2025\/12\/image-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2025\/12\/image-768x930.png 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2025\/12\/image.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When humans fear \u201cAI\u201d \u2014 because \u201cit\u201d will \u201cwant\u201d to prevent being \u201cunplugged\u201d or \u201cit\u201d will \u201cwant\u201d to \u201ctake over\u201d\u2014 it\u2019s a projection from the biologically evolved \u201cmirror-neuron\u201d (\u201cmind-reading\u201d) capacities and tendencies of humans\u2019 own, evolved, selfish-genes. Some of those who have been en-Nobelled or otherwise elevated to oracular status for having contributed to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2025\/12\/21\/lemoine-syndrome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lemoine Syndrome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,152,146,106,164,216,3,119,147,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness","category-hard-problem","category-chatgpt","category-language","category-llms","category-mirror-neurons","category-other-minds-problem","category-sentience","category-turing-test","category-volition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}