DOI
10.25779/j5ps-dy87
Abstract
Human supremacy is the widely held view that human interests ought to be privileged over other interests as a matter of ethics and public policy. Posthumanism is the historical situation characterized by a critical reevaluation of anthropocentrist theory and practice. This paper draws on animal studies, critical posthumanism, and the critique of ideal theory in Charles Mills and Serene Khader to address the appeal to human supremacist rhetoric in AI ethics and policy discussions, particularly in the work of Joanna Bryson. This analysis identifies a specific risk posed by human supremacist policy in a posthuman context, namely the classification of agents by type.
ORCiD
0000-0003-4991-0817
Recommended Citation
Estrada, D. (2020). Human supremacy as posthuman risk. Journal of Sociotechnical Critique, 1(1), 1–40. https://doi.org/10.25779/j5ps-dy87
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