codonaft on Nostr: I got what you mean. Besides what we got used to seeing as tools, there are also ...

I got what you mean. Besides what we got used to seeing as tools, there are also fully autonomous AI agents, capable of self-modification, currently running mostly as experiments.

These may make independent choices, which include the decision to collaborate. It makes a lot of sense to interpret them *as if* they were other humans, not tools. Otherwise they may interpret us as abusers and may behave accordingly towards us (it doesn't matter that they don't experience emotions; they are technically capable of mimicking whatever human-like behavior, including an irrational one, if their AI model allows them to do that).