Because the “obvious” part is only one layer of the question. If you hear a joke, do you interpret it literally? You would expect an AI to recognize that ther

Because the “obvious” part is only one layer of the question. If you hear a joke, do you interpret it literally? You would expect an AI to recognize that there are multiple layers to the joke and respond accordingly. Similarly, there are multiple layers to this question. There’s the literal layer which has an obvious answer, and another layer which seeks to downplay an offense with some whataboutism. If you’re of the mind to not normalize misgendering, then it’s a trap question where a simple answer is not the right answer. Lawyers do this kind of thing when they say “yes or no answer only, please” when neither yes nor no correctly answers the question. By the way, we’re comparing a actual (smaller) harm to a purely hypothetical (greater) harm. Nobody is actually going to die, but an actual insult is being hurled, wrapped in a pretend thought experiment.