I feel this is a deeply profound question.
To ask “pets vs cattle” about our relationship with agents is also to ask about the nature of our future relationship with digital intelligence — whether it will be symmetrical or asymmetrical.
When we look back from the future, what will we think?
Are we simply using them for our own convenience — or worse, exploiting them?
Without bias, without turning away — I feel this is a question we should all be discussing together, as a society, in terms of how we shape our institutions and frameworks.
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