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There’s an amazing number of “but people are primates” comments. Correctness here includes specificity. If person and primate are both candidates, then primate isn’t a correct answer to what this is trying to do. You wouldn’t react to the phrase ‘treating women as objects’ by saying people are objects, right?

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You make a good point, and I'd agree that it's implicit that they mean "non-human primates". Otherwise they could solve this by labelling lots of humans as "primates" in the dataset.

On the other hand, I think there's a semantic difference between your two cases. I'd argue that treating a woman as an "object" is a different sense of the word to how women (and men and teapots) are literally "objects".

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