Kevin MarksBender defined… dehumanization as “the cognitive state of failing to perceive another human as fully human… and the experience of being subjected to those acts that express a lack of perception of one’s humanity.” She then spoke about the problems of the computational metaphor: the idea that the human brain is a computer, and a computer is a human brain. This notion, she said, affords “the human mind less complexity than is owed, and the computer more wisdom than is due.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
That's Bender as in Professor Emily M. Bender, not the robot from Futurama. Though in the piece Blake Lemoine does seem to want to build his own fake people with blackjack and hookers.
Granny Weatherwax: "sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
Mightily Oates: "It's a lot more complicated than that--"
"No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."
"Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--"
"But they starts with thinking about people as things..."
--from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.
Mightily Oates: "It's a lot more complicated than that--"
"No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."
"Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--"
"But they starts with thinking about people as things..."
--from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.
Monique 
@KevinMarks "Treating people like things". And treating things like people? The systemic gendering of inanimate objects, e.g. ships, cars, countries as "she". The plumber refers to my washing machine as "she". Comes a point it seems that the only "he" is a biological male while everything else is "she".
Dean Burnett (that brains guy)@KevinMarks this, along with Vimes's 'theft is the only crime' stance, reveal just how brilliant Pratchett was at understanding human nature and explaining it so simply
Mike Talon@KevinMarks Sir PTerry was a genius in so many ways.