Comic #5888: agi

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Panel 1:

• Person with glasses (Professor): "Professor, what's the difference between artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence?"

• Dialogue Box (Professor): "Allow me to explain via the medium of bigotry."

Panel 2:

• Professor: "An artificial intelligence is a machine that is capable of racism, but only because it has been fed biased training data. Its racism may be patchy. Entire landscapes of prejudice may escape its notice."

• Drawn computer screen: "I only have American chauvinism."

Panel 3:

• Professor: "An artificial general intelligence has the ability to assess novel situations in a prejudiced manner – to perceive and react racistly due to sincerely held doucheyness in its model of reality."

• Drawn computer screen: "I even hate imaginary races!"

Panel 4:

• Professor: "Maybe we shouldn't try to duplicate the human mind, just eliminate it."

• Voice from the crowd: "You are now ready to learn AI ethics."

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