Robots fascinate me.
Certainly, I geek out on the Frankenstonian themes in Terminator and all the Alien movies. The Frankenstein stories that have pervaded our movies and stories in different ways and in different forms amaze me.
We create life. We play God. Then, suddenly, in a terrible epiphany, we realize that what we created can destroy us.
What amazing pride, and what an amazing fall of hubris. Icarus takes the ultimate fall. What a brilliant idea.
But, what if--and this is a huge if--we create AI, and the AI doesn't have any intention to take over the world, to take over humanity. No terminator machines or Alien monsters looking to kill off humanity.
What if it is so much stranger?
What if, in learning human logic and in learning our world, robots learn the same emotional responses? To break up marriages? To play with sarcasm?
To commit suicide when they are just fed up of working?
Life imitates art. I will find a way to write about this.
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