The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

I blame creatives (playwrights and scriptwriters) and their stupid allegories; they left us with no antibodies for AI. We were given simple morality plays about empathy for "the other" and asked to regard ALL robots as "people." The issue was decided on allegorical grounds before we could ever examine a Chatbot on philosophical grounds. From R.U.R. to Data to Ex Machina. P.K. Dick actually had it right with Screamers and Androids, but Ridley decided to make robots into "supermen who can't fly" ("Roy Batty died for your sins"). Yes, people are people. Yes, racism is bad. Robots ain't people, but it's too late. The after-school special message drowned out the literal warning about making Golems, simulants, murder-bots, chatter-boxes, and all seeing snoops. We're screwed. They're people. It was decided decades ago. We're done. They're going to give the bots a big butt and a smile and that will be then end of us.

Yeah I cast donkeys in my pictures now. Stubborn asses...

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I hate insomnia. Oh yeah. Last year I had four cases of it, and each time it lasted three months.

That sounds like something Alfred Hitchcock would've said. He didn't think much of actors.

He was always very focused on Tippi Hedren's ass.