re: #103 ckkatz

It’s an interesting question.

There is an online comic that is occasionally posted here.

(Grr… Name escapes me right now. An xkcd is down so I cannot check. But I have read much of it and enjoy it.)

It has AI characters. But they are displayed as human with many shared human experiences, human characteristics and human goals. This is obviously considered sympathetic by the readership.

In my mind, I view a complex and aware AI as alien to our frames of view. It has different processes than humans. It has different goals. It may have different ways to communicate. And what it communicates is different than what humans would communicate.

The closest frame I can think of is Heinlein’s ‘bugs’.

I’m not saying that it would be ‘evil’. More likely that it would be in a completely different moral chart altogether.

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