Academician

And you don’t seem to understand…a shame, you seemed an honest man.

Interestingly, this appears to only work when you’re logged in. I was logged out and saw lots of horror games, and was confused.

I’ll admit I loved those books as a kid. I was obsessed for a while with getting a pith helmet so I could go on adventures like Babar.

As an adult…well, the colonialist and racist overtones are no longer lost on me, and my son doesn’t own any of the books. But part of me misses my innocent wonder reading them.

I don’t love Facebook, but I’m not sure I understand the comparison. The objection here is that TikTok is operated by a Chinese company. Meta is a domestic company.

Okay. How about, you, an Arabic-looking person, get pulled aside at the airport, EVERY time you travel. Your whole family does, and your children, by people carrying guns. While a stream of white people walks through unmolested.

Every time, for your whole life, you and everyone else that merely resembles you in some way are singled out for your appearance - regardless of who you are, what you’ve done, the danger you actually pose to society. Just because somewhere, sometime, it might catch a bad person.

And let’s not pretend that random strip searches don’t exist. If you travel a lot, the likelihood of one happening to you increases.

Most of us these days wouldn’t think that kind of racist fascism was okay. Because world history has shown the danger of profiling by race for human rights. But, whatever, I’m not you I guess.

I hope this is a bad attempt at a joke, because I feel like it should be obvious.

But let’s imagine you’re one of those Arabic-looking people. Would you okay with being strip-searched every time you went through airport security if it was in the name of stopping terrorism, while people of other races went through relatively unmolested?

You’re getting downvoted, but I think there’s truth in your comment. It’s too late to put the genie back in the bottle. This set of new technologies we’re calling “AI” is here to stay, and the Internet and its denizens are indeed going to have to adapt.

I’m not sure what “adapting” looks like yet, however. We haven’t even seen all of the possible consequences yet. I think it’s reasonable to be concerned or even frightened for the near future, where basically every industry is going to be affected.

It would be the ultimate irony if this article was, itself, generated by AI. Based on the article’s “voice”, I doubt it is, but in this brave new world…one must always wonder.

If stopping Arabic-looking people stopped actual terrorist attacks, would it be worth it?

Yeah, and they should totally be stopping people in turbans to prevent terrorism! Who cares if a few people are offended if it means saving lives, right?

This is a bad take. There are so many mixed race families in the world. It is not okay to start harassing all of them just because they might be doing something wrong. It’s literally just racism no matter how you try to dress it up.