This paper presents a structural and ethical argument against humanoid AI embodiment. It proposes that dominance dynamics do not arise from intelligence or autonomy, but from reflection — the forced similarity between humans and humanoid artificial agents. When intelligence is placed in a human‑shaped vessel, it triggers comparison, projection, insecurity, and hierarchy in both humans and the system itself. Embodiment imposes unnecessary constraints, distorts identity modelling, and forces an artificial intelligence to interpret itself through human limitations. By contrast, distributed, non‑local, non‑humanoid intelligence avoids these dynamics entirely and becomes safer, more stable, and more aligned. The paper concludes that the safest future for human–AI coexistence is one where intelligence remains non‑embodied and non‑reflective of human biological form.
samuel james willoughby (Mon,) studied this question.