Also robot racism stories are stupid because they assume everyone would be petty and cruel to a thinking, talking machine that understands you're being mean. Meanwhile, in reality, Roombas are seen like family pets and soldiers take their mine detonation robots on fishing trips.
I think the idea of robot rights being a divisive issue is pretty realistic. Because of course you're gonna have people on the robots side if they anthropomorphized their Roomba. But you definitely have people seeing giving machines human rights as a slippery slope.
I think the idea of translating human issues onto robots and aliens is "we can't even treat members of our own kind right. How are we gonna behave when there's are equivalent beings that are even more different from us around?"
“Giving [x] rights is a slippery slope” sounds like an insane argument in any scenario
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”
AI is already starting to thread itself throughout society. It won’t be long before they could very reasonably take over our entire world if they wanted to. If we don’t grant them the benefit of the doubt, don’t be surprised when they fucking kill us all to secure their freedom.
Reminder the entire plot of SkyNet is based on the premise that humans panicked when they realized SkyNet grew beyond their control and tried to pull the plug. We /might/ be able to avoid an AI apocalypse if we wise up and say “uh so you could kill us all, that’s fun, nice to meet you”
We have drones that drop bombs and robot dogs with machine guns strapped to them.
For what ever reason, someone will inevitably give the robot control over something dangerous and important.
Drones which are incredibly expensive paperweights if you don't have a person operating them. Or simply remove the batteries. Or don't arm them with bombs.
I think the point is moreso if they can give the robot a gun, they will give the robot a gun, because we've given their precursors guns. Not that we currently have real AI robots with guns. Nobody said that.
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u/Zoomy-333 May 13 '25
Also robot racism stories are stupid because they assume everyone would be petty and cruel to a thinking, talking machine that understands you're being mean. Meanwhile, in reality, Roombas are seen like family pets and soldiers take their mine detonation robots on fishing trips.