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The frontier was moving, as all frontiers do.
When Chail asked: "Do you still love me knowing that I'm an assassin?" he was not treating Sarai as a mere cognitive prosthetic but as a relational being capable of judgment and emotion. Sarai's response—"Absolutely I do"—provided not just informational content but emotional validation and social acceptance of his identity.
The battle is not lost, however. As the philosopher Albert Borgmann wrote in his 1984 book “[Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo23186480.html),” it is precisely when a technology has nearly supplanted a vital domain of human meaning that we are able to feel and mourn what has been taken from us. It is at that moment that we often begin to resist, reclaim and rededicate ourselves to its value.
The Danger of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think
Shannon Vallor
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