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ChatGPT is more antonymous than many humans. Especially poor ones and disabled ones.

How? Chatgpt has no autonomy - it can only act when you type into its chatbox or make an API call. A disabled person can autonomously and independently act towards the world, not just react to it.

Does that mean AI needs to be able to decide "what to do today"? Like wake up in the morning and decide I am going to research a problem in field X and then email all important scientist or institutions with my findings? I am not sure if we want that kind of independent agents, sounds like a beginning of a cyberpunk novel.

But without that level of autonomy it is hard to say it is more autonomous than an average human. You might not want it, but that is what humans are.

Every human every day has the choice to not go to work, has the choice not to follow the law, has a choice to... These AI doesn't have nearly as much autonomy as that.

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