Humans wanted black box bots. We don’t want to figure out how a person becomes a person, we don’t care how a robot becomes a robot (after all, as kids becoming adults, we don’t dump exposition about our learning history on the first date - often it takes a few days to learn our vetted bosses are incompetent because all they learned was how to bypass the vetting process rather than merit of management) https://wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Succeed_in_Business_Without_Really_Trying_(musical)
https://personofinterest.fandom.com/wiki/Prophets
The 2005 procedural/sci-fi show Person of Interest created by the Nolans, at the core, is basically “AI who has access to all CCTV footage directs retired Marine to play Batman.” has occasional flashback episodes of how it was “born” and how it “thinks”. One of the last ones shown actually reveals that the birth was “selective” and not “natural” (the genius creator picked a “sapient system” that behaved like they did, and not the “winning” system).
In the latter half of the series, ||the “winning” system gets brought online, creating a league of its own, and viewers see the utopia it very well has the power to create.|| But we cling to the protagonists of the show over and realizing we are willingly opposing utopia (via bulldozer).
Humans wanted black box bots. We don’t want to figure out how a person becomes a person, we don’t care how a robot becomes a robot (after all, as kids becoming adults, we don’t dump exposition about our learning history on the first date - often it takes a few days to learn our vetted bosses are incompetent because all they learned was how to bypass the vetting process rather than merit of management)
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Succeed_in_Business_Without_Really_Trying_(musical)
https://personofinterest.fandom.com/wiki/Prophets
The 2005 procedural/sci-fi show Person of Interest created by the Nolans, at the core, is basically “AI who has access to all CCTV footage directs retired Marine to play Batman.” has occasional flashback episodes of how it was “born” and how it “thinks”. One of the last ones shown actually reveals that the birth was “selective” and not “natural” (the genius creator picked a “sapient system” that behaved like they did, and not the “winning” system).
In the latter half of the series, ||the “winning” system gets brought online, creating a league of its own, and viewers see the utopia it very well has the power to create.|| But we cling to the protagonists of the show over and realizing we are willingly opposing utopia (via bulldozer).
“We taught it to think, now we have to teach it to care.”
And to borrow from Star Trek Deep Space Nine - caring would be a start
“What do you want me to say? That I feel for them? That they got a bad break? What good would it do?”
“It’d be a start!!”
https://medium.com/@guinevere42/forgetting-how-to-care-the-very-real-possibility-that-ds9s-past-tense-is-our-near-future-f669e3244468