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WCDT Strips 3091 to 3095 (16-20 November 2015)
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Tova on 18 Nov 2015, 00:07 ---I'm now wondering about people's opinions on the central topic of the conversation: should AIs get involved in human conflicts?
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Only to the extent that humans should. Same with AI conflicts. Humans should only be involved to the same degree as AIs should.
Akima:
Yes. It is always difficult to wrap ones head around life-paths very different from, and sometimes even antithetical to, that one has chosen oneself. It is vitally important to grasp that there are many entirely legitimate and honourable viewpoints that one does not share. There have been, and are now, people on this forum who have reminded me of that.
HannahRose:
--- Quote from: Tova on 18 Nov 2015, 00:07 ---I'm now wondering about people's opinions on the central topic of the conversation: should AIs get involved in human conflicts?
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Given humanity's history of pointing fingers because we don't want to accept the blame for our own actions, I'd say that for their (AI) own sake, no, they should not get involved.
Granted, maybe wars in the QC universe work a bit differently than in ours, and people don't automatically look for the most convenient scapegoat when things go the slightest bit wrong, but based on Momo's apprehension about the subject, I very much doubt that that's the case.
Mr. Doctor:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 17 Nov 2015, 23:49 ---I wonder if there was exposition we missed or whether Miss Bubbles clammed up as soon as Momo gave her an opening to reminisce.
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Same here.... I even went back and forth just to see if I missed a comic. Feels weird because like you said: I have no idea if a tale of the past was given of if she just straight went for the "year we are done now". I'm not particuarly sad about it though. Just a bit disappointed as I was very curious.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Tova on 18 Nov 2015, 00:07 ---I'm now wondering about people's opinions on the central topic of the conversation: should AIs get involved in human conflicts?
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Ultimately, it is the definition of a free, sentient being that they can make these choices for themselves. In many ways, to the extent that you can argue that a standing army is a necessary thing at all, a Synthetic has as much right to choose a military career as a biological.
The minute that you start laying prohibitions that people of certain races or species are not allowed to do something if they want to for no other reason than that they are of that race or species, then you're staggering along the lip of the slippery slope that gave us apartheid and segregation.
What worries me about this arc is that there is apparently a subgroup of the AI civil rights movement (of which Momo is either a member or at least to whom she is sympathetic) that seems to think it has the right to define morality and ethical behaviour solely for AIs apparently with the objective of making them 'acceptable' to humans. This goes a lot further than using pressure to encourage law-abiding lifestyles (which is always a good idea), it is also imposing restrictions on life choices to make AIs seem 'less threatening'. Furthermore, from what Bubbles said, many of the more powerful AIs (we're talking about the huge god-machines that Momo talked about to some of the guys at the library, whose minds are so vast as to be incomprehensible to a human-level intelligence) are advocates of this position. That could potentially raise large issues if they are ever tempted to use their enormous power to enforce their ideology on their smaller and weaker brethren.
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