It is written nowhere in That Alien Message that the humans do anything human!mean to the aliens in the universe they break out into. The error strikes me as very significant; to write that humans would be ungracious in victory from a human perspective, be cruel or even uncaring towards the aliens, would indicate that the author’s fear of AI came from a belief that everybody has to be uncaring and humans have to be uncaring too, which is very much not what I believe.
(I do expect that the humans stopped the aliens from eating babies; and that the aliens were very sad about that, and that it was not what they’d have chosen for themselves.)
It is written nowhere in That Alien Message that the humans do anything human!mean to the aliens in the universe they break out into. The error strikes me as very significant; to write that humans would be ungracious in victory from a human perspective, be cruel or even uncaring towards the aliens, would indicate that the author’s fear of AI came from a belief that everybody has to be uncaring and humans have to be uncaring too, which is very much not what I believe.
(I do expect that the humans stopped the aliens from eating babies; and that the aliens were very sad about that, and that it was not what they’d have chosen for themselves.)