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How many AIs are there? What are the social consequences?

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BenRG:
This is a post that I put on the nicer Subreddit:


--- Quote ---I'm thinking that the pre-sentient AI that spontaneously evolves into AI was probably mass-produced for a huge number of consumer, commercial and industrial functions before the scientists realised what was going on and hauled the 'emergency stop' lever as hard as they could.

Given that factories could easily have been turning AnthroPCs and MakeToastFun Toasters out at a level of thousands of units per day then, yes, there is likely a huge population out there. Probably several tens of millions, although most of them are likely concentrated in Europe, North America and Taiwan-Japan-Korea ('Americanised Asia', as I think of it sometimes).
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Remember that pre-Emancipation AIs were apparently mass consumer items. I have no doubt that they were mass produced in many differet different forms in typical modern production line conditions. So, yes, they would have appeared at a rate of many tens of thousands a day.

I'd be interested in others' views on this. It's kind of like mass immigration in a bizarro-world way. Tens of millions of new workers, inhabitants and, yes, friends and lovers, all just appearing, likely on a time-scale of just months and many of them already living in homes around the world. Just how would this change society? How would it change the popular ideas of what classifies as alive and what deserves personhood?

Please add your own thoughts here.

Pilchard123:
What's "the nicer Subreddit"?

N.N. Marf:
Well shit. I thought I was a pretty accepting sort of person, but imagining that---suddenly so many (at least a few) strangers, in my own home---my first reaction is, I kick them all out: out of my home, or even off the block if I can rally immediate support. And thinking it through now, it's still what I'd react.
I don't think it's about the kind of person they are. Imagining the same thing with others, I get the same reaction. Maybe that's of some persons' feel against immigration. Hypersensitivity about encroachment.

No, wait. I was imagining them embodied. That wouldn't be the case. They'd be pure software at this point, the ones in my home. No, my reaction would be to wipe them; to kill them, not noticing their sapience. No-one would know.. How many were killed when it happened? What a decentralized genocide! And how long before it's recognized? We made, in part, a brand new race, and promptly attempted genocide on them.. What strange history humanity makes. Foh! Makes me wanna get out of this human skin.

Cornelius:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 22 Oct 2020, 00:07 --- many of them already living in homes around the world

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I'd say that that would definitely be disturbing to most people, especially for those AI in appliances or otherwise that do not have any kind of companionship function. Similar to realising a stranger has been living in your cupboard, and watching you for months. That's not to say the friends and lovers might not happen; especially with AnthroPC's, where some companionship seems to be part of their function, that's possible.

Gyrre:
Are you asking if the QC cast need to be concerned if there will be any Dr. Light or Dr. Wiley types, or if some sort of super fighting robot is going to turn up?


Also, has anyone written that QC fanfic yet?

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