Does it take a human to have agency? Doesn't a cat have agency and desire? What about a worm? Where do you make the cut off, and why? If an AI is programmed with a bias towards creating and following "desires", how is it fundamentally different than what evolution installed in us?
We're way too human focused and dismissive of everything that isn't exactly like us.
We're way too human focused and dismissive of everything that isn't exactly like us.