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WCDT: 2281-85 (24-28 September 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Method of Madness:
Oh, Emily, you'd make toast fun.
Exar_Kun:
So...question:
How much do "standard mutual-companionship contracts" cost I wonder? About as much as the new iPhone? More? Less?
Kugai:
I've got it!!!
Emily is a failed Clone of Raven from Teen Titans.
Is it cold in here?:
Marten could afford Pintsize, so apparently not very much.
I would be missing a chance to add confusion if I didn't point out that "Akima" is a Finnish name.
Torlek:
I was under the impression that Marten bought Pintsize before AI emancipation and thus they were probably grandfathered into a contract.
Momo's phrasing brings up a couple of interesting thoughts though. Since this is a "Mutual Companionship Contract" that the human presumably needs to pay for, for the initial AI chassis and such, is the AI contractually bound to the person? What collateral does the AI put up to offset the cost of the new chassis? If the AI refuses to provide the human with computing resources can the AI be taken to court for breach of contract? Is there a buy-out mechanism in the contract if the AI wants to leave or is it referred to an "AI divorce court"? Are there "free" AI's that take out a loan for a body and if they fall into default they get evicted back to the cloud? What do they do with AI's that commit criminal acts? AI jail? AI death penalty? For that matter, would destroying an AnthroPC's hard drive be considered murder?
A world with emancipated AI's in and out of robot bodies would be weird.
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