[alicebot-aiethics] A.I. and anger

Robby Garner alicebot-aiethics@list.alicebot.org
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:35:35 -0400


> On a side note, this behavior really scares me. I can see far future
A.I.'s
> really having a hard time with hate crimes and descrimination based on the
> seeds I see planted in chatbot logs. As the machines become more advanced
so
> will the desire of humans to want to proove their superiority.

Isaac Asimov predicted this. Check out CAVES OF STEEL, and some of his other
robot novels. They foreshadow the kind of resentment and prejudice that
people feel against machines. If R2D2 existed today, it would be treated
like a public men's room, or worse.  The mobile bots of the future better be
built of tough stuff.

Robby.