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AI civil rights and status

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Oilman:
Well, yes. I'd assume that since Momo is apparently capable of passing the Turing test, there is a clearly defined threshold which establishes whether a given AI is a legal adult or not. I doubt if Winslow is, for example; Pintsize's idiotic behaviour at times suggests that he isn't, and both he and Marten are well aware of this. May might well be subject to legal restrictions.

There are clearly various grades of chassis. May obviously has a "cheap" one, although that's a relative term. The receptionist at Idoru seems to have a chassis of this type. The next level are the sales staff at Idoru, with visible joints and flesh-coloured skin tones. Momo has an external "skin" but at least one visible joint (around the neck). All appear to have flexible faces capable of a degree of expression.

All have libidos, expressed or implied. Pintsize has a "computer" libido quite separate from his sexualised goofing around - he cannot properly explain his "date" with the Anthro with the pink avatar. Winslow presumably has one, although with no readily definable gender it may be off-line or dormant. Chibi-Momo has one, expressed in the incidents with the Sven-fantasy and the action figure. "Big" Momo, good question - she may, or may not be anatomically correct to some degree but she is not going to make any friends by acting as a precocious fourteen-year-old, and she undiubtedly knows that.

It does rather beg the question of why she wants to look like that?

May clearly thinks she SHOULD be anatomically correct, and by implication thinks that Marigold and Dale believe she is so constructed.

Is it cold in here?:
It's a clearly plot-relevant line of speculation (mod) but I have to warn everyone away from it given the emphatic statements Jeph has made about it being creepy (/mod).

Neko_Ali:
When Pintsize had his date it was more about sharing data than any kind of physical interaction. And it was implied that gender to them is not much more than a software setting. A fair bit of that is that the AnthroPCs, Station and a lot of the gendered AIs we have seen interact with humans on a regular, daily basis. As humans we tend to think of things in gendered terms, even assigning gender to things that clearly have none, like tools and vehicles. So acting in a gendered matter may be something they choose to do to be more understandable to humans. Momo's daydream about Sven could have also been a matter of her close relationship with Marigold and all the hentai she watches and reads.

Other AIs, like Deathbot, the Vespervenger and that invisible aircraft Hanners showed up in to the lake party may or may not have gender, since they aren't acting as human-facing interfaces. In the end, there's no logical reason for an AI to have a gender, other than to ease interaction with humans, unless that's just part of their psychological make up.

Oilman:
Well, exactly. Pintsize isn't "gendered" in any meaningful, humsn sense and couldn't really convey the nature of his experience on his "date". His sexualised behaviour with the girls is a learned response which he mostly does for effect. Given his apparent porn library it might consist of almost anything he thinks likely to produce an effect.

Momo may, or may not be anatomically correct to a greater or lesser degree, nobody really knows. The "eels" joke could just be a case of Early Installment  Wierdness. She appears to have little direct experience of human interaction and is probably unduly influenced by Marigold's yaoi collection, observation and whatever she has understood of Pintsize's ravings (and he clearly tells her anythung he thinks will produce an effect)

Do I think Momo has any real understanding of sexuality? No. Do I think she would respond to a serious approach? No. Does everyone understand this? Don't know, but it may be why she chooses to appear as a very young teenager, because her "social protocol database" tells her that as such, it would be inappropriate for anyone to hit on her.

ReindeerFlotilla:
I think she just likes that Chassis.

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