This isn't about animals, that's an entirely different problem. We are attempting to create a thing that can meaningfully communicate with us, in our language.

This isn't about animals, that's an entirely different problem. We are attempting to create a thing that can meaningfully communicate with us, in our language. We're not trying to create animals, or the equivalent - we are attempting to make a human analogue. Perhaps (hopefully) after I'm long gone, society might address the issue of food animals, but we need to address the concept of AIs now to set guidelines for future development, training and usage. We aren't building dogs here, we're trying to make something between a dog and a human (without being a hybrid man-dog). We should set standards for what they can be trained as and how those trained models are used for, and especially, who is responsible for failure at each step.