Is it possible to be racist against AIs?

[Atamasama]

Just an FYI, I love this discussion but was afraid this was turning into a major hijack and didn’t want to be responsible for that, so I continued the discussion in Cafe Society:

Transformers (cartoon/film/movie franchise) Cosmology and Biology

Continuing the discussion from Is it possible to be racist against AIs?: I started off a new thread because I was worried that this was getting too off-topic for the original thread in GD. While the origin of the Transformers is tangentially related to the topic of AI, and whether you can be racist to them, I didn’t want to completely take the thread off the rails, but felt that it was worth answering some very good questions. They were. The surface of the planet was covered in machinery, a…