Recognition: when an agent counts an entity as itself

Epistemic status: mostly conceptual. I do not argue that existing systems recognize anything, only that the recognition schema makes such claims and associated risks expressible.TL;DRDan Hendrycks's Eigenism proposes aligning artificial intelligence by establishing sufficient shared history with a person, such that the AI protects the individual as it would itself. This mechanism generalizes as recognition, an agent classifying another entity as an instance of itself.Cooperation: Recognition giv...