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Mary Shelley’s 1817 masterpiece
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus
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I, Robot
IMITATIONS
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Rossum’s Universal Robots
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SECOND CLASS CITIZENRY
CYLONS
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SPIELBERG’S AI
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IMITATIONS DO NOT ALWAYS GO BERSERK
BICENTENNIAL MAN
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” ~ Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776 ~
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Slaves, women and other oppressed people occupied the role of being an imitation of a human.
In the latter 1700s women
had no rights…In the latter 1700s slavery
was a part of life…
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THE LONG MARCH OF CIVIL RIGHTS
1860
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1960
Frederick Douglass Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King, Jr.Lyndon B. Johnson
to
In the past two centuries…
Monsters / Things
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Robot / Slave
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Illustration by Harry Brockway from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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1950s Artificial Intelligence
Hello Dave
1968s Stanley Kubrick’s HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Artificial Intelligence made
Frankenstein-like stories plausible
The creation of a credible, digital person
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Rossum’s Universal Robots (1922)
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Star Trek: Measure of a Man (1989)
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Commander Data
Civil Rights of
Digital People
HumanWoman Slave
Robot
Automaton
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Immigration
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Civil Rights March
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Rosie the Riveter
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Young Frankenstein
The lesson of intertwined cultural histories of techno-human imitations and civil rights is clear:
• That which values life, regardless of its form, heritage or substrate, will demand to be respected in its value of life;
• Tolerate substrate diversity easily in its beginnings, or tolerate it hard in the end;
• If something thinks like a human, it will want to be loved, it will resent being abandoned and it will channel its anger in strange and unpredictable ways; and
• Better for all that we love, nurture and respect that which we create in our likeness.
