even if that hypothetical AI could understand human language- and you’re right- it’s coded by people, and it’s actions will be predicated on what those people coded it to do.

Meaning that the AI gets it’s sense of appropriate from those people. Which means, those people might as well be modding it. or seen as the mods. bots are all-too-frequently used to insulate the people making the decisions as to what should be moderated from those actions. in the case of reddit automod bot yeeting content based on included words… most of that is stupid, I agree, but then it’s those mod’s community.