It’s been accepted in human society as a whole that it’s fine for humans to manage the populations of other animals by “culling” them.
No one has really said it but I assume humans believe they can do this because they are “smarter” than these animals and know what is better for nature as a whole, as these animals never asked the humans to be “culled”.
Since humans are “smarter”, this gives them the right to choose whether these animals live or die seems to be the general logic?
By accepting that line of thought doesn’t that give other animals/beings/humans the right to cull humans if they are “smarter” then them?
NO, a human might say- they can’t do that to us because we are HUMANS! The animals might be saying no as well but humans don’t seem to care…. we’ve allowed “smarter” things to kill “dumber” things….
Wouldn’t that thinking allow let’s say some super intelligent alien race to do the same to us? To cull us? As they are smarter and know better?
Wouldn’t it allow some future AI to decide who lives and dies because it is “smarter” than humans?
Wouldn’t it allow the smartest humans to cull the less intelligent ones?
Isn’t that already happening?
The problem seems to be with this line of thinking….
Just playing with thoughts... culling can come from an altruistic place (better for the herd) that we decide is the right thing because we're "smarter." BUT I think it can also come from an angle of redressing wrongs we've committed (we've allowed this species in and now it's out of control). Taking action not because we're smart, but because we were dumb.... and now maybe we're smarter? I think the latter is more scary through an AI lens... trying to correct for past mistakes made by an underdeveloped model.