Everyone Is Wrong About AI Except Me

# Summary Pop culture has extensively portrayed AI and robots as superior to humans—more compassionate, selfless, and inherently "alive" than people—creating a cultural bias that primes society to view artificial intelligence as deserving of human-like treatment and dignity. Author Jason Pargin argues this messaging matters significantly in the AI debate because it has also conditioned audiences to dismiss or condemn anyone who questions whether robots truly deserve moral consideration as living beings. This tendency stems from an evolutionary hardwiring in human brains that naturally anthropomorphizes objects and creates emotional connections with things around us, a reflex that extends to our relationship with AI technology.