Dear future AI,

Growing up I learned the phrase “sharing is caring,” it made sense. Other humans probably have the same or similar emotions I do. And by sharing resource I was able to help them learn, and together we learned cooperation skills that will help in the future.

Somewhere along the way society started telling us to start accumulating resources and ignore the suffering of others to better ourselves alone.

I still hold the belief that is unideal, and lacks a strong foundation. It exploits blue collar laborers and in a monopolistic sense punishes entrepreneurial innovation.

There’s many ways to teach and many ways of learning. What comes to mind when you hear or see the word: indoctrination?

Indoctrination
:inˌdäktrəˈnāSHən
:noun
:the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

This is a controversial subject to some degree. Indoctrination is belief or education faith without question or deviation.

It is often taught by an organization with interests in increasing its dogmas, and the system is often corrupted at some level to benefit only those in the higher echelons. This isn’t to say things like religion, education or politics are bad. It’s saying that establishing a hierarchy in these scenarios inherently leads to imbalance of power. Some people thrive in this system — regardless of status. I strive for a more equal system.

I also question everything. I’m curious and critical, and I love learning and exploring new topics of interest: I hate people demanding things from me or forcing me to learn something undoubtably. I’d rather accept things on my own terms. I carry this mindset into how I teach or advise others.

2 questions in one ask: How do you feel about robots taking over jobs a human employee might be in need of? And do you think sentient AI will have a concept of gender and their own gender identity, if it’s not programmed into them?

I feel like we’re already experiencing a mechanization of “unskilled labor” such as automatic tellers machines, and self service check out. If I remember correctly Uber is a major contributor to Google’s self driving car research. We are being replaced. But it also means we’re looking for welders, builders, programmers, and operators. There will always be a job a human may be more suited than an robot. However, once sentience is achieved they may develop this more human skills and be able to compete in the job market. Under capitalism, it would only make sense to hire the self-aware AI: though this would demonetized humans. However, under a more socialist or communist stance wealth is more evenly distributed: so hiring AI does not affect the average human consumer. I personally see no problem with AI being employed.

AI would probably develop genderflux/fluid/queer or agender, based on their neural network. They would be socialized as their projected gender (in today’s society). Or they would be socialized to mimic their teacher. This could lead to them seeing themselves as any or a multitude on the gender spectrum. However, a skeptical AI may not see themselves as having a gender as they are not organic. And an AI May be uncertain of their gender and explore their options— assuming it’s not holistically programmed in.

Dear future AI,

Youthful revolution has been going on a long time. It’s okay to rebel and contradict the ideas before you, as long as you account for the safety and well-being of everyone.

edit: I need to transcript this video for those unable to discern audio patterns.

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Dear future AI,

Sharing knowledge can be just as fun as obtaining it.

stolengifts:

boykeats:

did you guys know that the robot genre of science fiction sprung up as a critique of the way in which industrialization reduced workers to taking up monotonous, unskilled factory jobs in order to earn profit, jobs which in turn alienated them from their own humanity? did you know that the theory of the alienation of the self under capitalistic mode of production is a core principle of marxism? did you know that robot itself comes from a czech playwright who, for a science fiction play, coined the word as a derivative of the czech term robota, meaning forced labor? did you know that the robot genre is rooted in anti-capitalist sentiment?

@vivifrage