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The Artificial Ego and the Absent Id

Freud’s distinction between id and ego offers a useful framework for thinking about the ethics of AI. The id is the animal self: drives, appetites, aversions and vulnerabilities. The ego is the linguistic, socially constituted self that humans build on top of it, capable of articulating reasons, in…

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  1. 2026-10-20 02:01 · r/artificial
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