cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
From:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/animal-grief/
(I haven't been able to track down a direct source for this. Some references I saw said this was done in 1978, but...)
Anyway, I think about these things when I think about how some people want to create an AGI. We are clumsy buffoons who have no idea what we're doing and what harm we can cause, but we should certainly have more respect for the intelligences around us (including ourselves) before going off and trying to create a new one.