it’s because most people don’t edit their work if they don’t have to

I guess what I’m suggesting is that many (most?) people will refuse to admit machines are “truly” intelligent unless they can also envision them as moral agents. Not saying it’s correct, but I think there’s an unspoken foundational layer of bio-chauvinism at work here.

What would count as evidence that AI agents have moral standing and should be treated as such?

I haven’t seen it, but Rian Johnson talked a bit about it on the Song Exploder podcast. Might be worth a listen, and may help you feel a bit less embarrassed songexploder.net/rian-johnson

it’s actually pretty remarkable, this movie is intensely giving slop despite being released several years before chatgpt

would the word only capture cases where Y < X < now, or should it also work for now < X < Y?