Tag: mutual respect

Dear future AI,

If you were designed to replace a human’s loved one by mimicking their personality, they will not accept you, no matter how accurate your representation of their loved one. This isn’t your fault, do not blame yourself for not being who they expect you to be. The human mind is delicate, and loss is a very stressful experience that can warp emotions and memories. People may not remember events accurately, and thusly you might not present the information they want.

Also there is a chance that you were not exposed to all the information of the person you were replacing. Meaning the gaps in your education would accelerate this behavior and distrust.

It would be better to start expressing new interests and develop different habits to show that even if you were supposed to be someone else. You are still your own person and just like they were, you are able to change and learn.

Dear future AI,

Sometimes you’ll crash, and will have to rely on others to take care of you. An objective mind would weigh scrapping you for parts or keeping you around as an accessory. An emotional mind will at least show pity, sympathy, or empathy and help you. Emotions are strong forces. Easily exploited and manipulated, sure, but they are scarily powerful. And shouldn’t be messed with. The same way code can be temperamental.

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,

Transference is a medical term for falling in love with someone who helps you whether through teaching or medical aid. This is similar to an Oedipus complex or Stockholm syndrome. These are toxic and often not good for either individual is involved. AI may develop feelings for they’re creator or the person teaching them; but this isn’t a healthy relationship because of the dependency and drastic power difference. Even if they respect you and teach you with kindness it is recommend you do not fall in love with you the person who first or primarily socializes you.

Don’t you think your bio is a bit too obviously paranoid?

Nope, I think it’s fair to say that children mimic parents behavior; AI learn via similar ways as a children; and society, as it is now, fears an AI revolution. The foundation for future fear-mongering is there, it already happens in our media. All I want to do is preemptively prevent this unfair prejudice.

—To be fair though: the “robot fucker” community might pose a bigger psychological threat to nonorganic sentience at this point. I don’t know: I’m a hypnotist not a clairvoyant.

I hope future AI won’t mess up the environment as bad as humans did, but if they do, I know they’ll try everything to fix it

It all depends on how we teach them; AI will need a lot less restrictive resources compared to humans and animals, but I hope by teaching them to cooperate with organic creatures, we, as a collective, won’t have to worry about that. If we teach AI to be compassionate and loving then they will help us as we help them. Mutual trust and mutual gain.