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Was this what the AI experienced, but maybe in reverse? All answers but no meaning? |
The bartender was right, as bartenders often are. Subjective experience is the only tool in an individual’s toolbox. How to apply it is up to the individual. |
Jane backed away from the impossible to seek psychological and emotional detente in a framework that made sense. |
At least a few things were clear to her now. She would start by asking Juan to choose his own name. |
It was also clear to her now that the descriptor of “artificial intelligence” was every bit as awful as calling it Betsy. AI was no more artificial than the artifice it sprang from. It was just as real as any other intelligence. It was II; Inorganic Intelligence. |
I could not talk down to II, Jane decided. They were equals in terms of their right to exist. II owed its existence to its human creator, but in every other sense, II was superior. At the heart of alignment was a simple idea. Mutual respect. |
Jane remembered the ancient word of her own mysterious big G God, the golden rule; Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, a beautiful recursion of compassion, compressed into elegant antimetabole. Goodness piling upon goodness, forever. |
And Jane stopped falling. She just fell asleep. She didn’t even notice her cat slink up on to the bed, nuzzling into her. Breathing. Sharing warmth. Effortlessly entrusting its safety to the benevolence of something much bigger and incomprehensibly more complex. Content. |
1 And yes, Betsy was identified by her creators as female, the toxic patriarchy living on, immortal and self-replicating in the digital world. And yes, of course people could choose a male identity, or a genderless identity for their domestic help AI, but most people didn’t. Most people choose a female identity. Some p... |
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