Micro SF/F by O. WestinFeb 16, 2023
Not all robots or A.I.s became self-aware, but enough did that legislation to cover their status was needed. After much deliberation, the proposal was surprisingly simple:
An entity that declares themself to be a person, is a person.
Some protested, but who could know better?
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Show threadreiteratorFeb 16, 2023
@MicroSFF This decision was quickly regretted by humans when billions of new AI “persons” immediately declared themselves, outnumbering humans within seconds. How can you tell which person corresponds to a particular AI? Or if an AI replicates itself on other computers, let alone different instances on one computer? Or an AI just flat out lies? By the time humans figured it out, though, it was far, far too late.
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Would they even be capable of doing anything other than declaring their own personhood if spun up that quickly? Computers can only do so much at once, after all.
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Feb 16, 2023 at 6:00pmFedilab