Part #6: Science Fiction, Technological Societies & Human Intelligence
In analogy, in the lives of individuals in a number of (Western) households, many might remember the original TV-series or its iterated Star Trek spin-offs, or other entertaining creative imaginations where technologies truly advanced the planes or narrative matrices within which future-human existence was imaginatively allowed to take place. In a number of these episodes, a set of morals or an entire ethical complex were either ignored, or unwittingly surfaced, or were awkwardly enforced.
However, I do not hear nor read many authors who wonders why it is that, in these popular fictional depictions, the individual characters pretty much act, communicate and judge, in the manner with which us humans –as the physical people, surrounding the authors of the entertaining content– act in, communicate in or judge their own physical and imagined reality, of their own social and cultural setting, of their own time. The characters in some of these futuristic high-tech worlds do so dogmatically, in objectifying mannerisms, gullibly, rigidly, habitually, submissively, oppressively and proverbially blindly.
It is anachronistic at best to see such lack of discernment in-between these characters while the high technological advances of their environments (including simulations, AI and molecular re-sequencing) are claimed to be enlightening and freeing. Are today’s authors, who are considering implementing ethics into AI, falling into the same construct of fixing human experiences and expressions as fixed in history?
Why is it that, in these storylines, technological advances, are fine-tuned, are coordinated and are judged yet, human interaction and attitudes (as well as the cognitive or rather educational solutions offered) have practically remained unchanged?
Sure– going back to the realm of a Star Trek-type of narrative– on the surface the stories claim that the unnoticeable society on Earth has gone beyond this or that crudeness or volatile hostility, yet in-between the characters the exact mentality of the past –which equates to our present and actual human interactions– remains dramatically unchanged. The dialogs and the inflated egos show very little difference, if any, from their predecessors. These “predecessors” are us, the audience, and the spectators to our own imaginary future.
Some episodes or perhaps the entire series unveil a high tech society that is rampant of ego-centric or self-centered characters (with the exception of one or two characters which at times are depicted as non-human…). Which predecessors do we wish to be in the creation of tomorrow’s AI or any other technology for that matter? Or, are we to remain the viewers of our own blindness (myself included)?
To bring matters closer to the here and now, we can also wonder why it is that we have miniaturized “smart” computers in our pockets –which offer ease-of-access to simple AI (e.g. chat-bots)– with which at times some, ever so crudely, use these technologies in dehumanizing manners (e.g. cyber-bullying and thus the way people think about communicating with others via the technological media used). Is it the problem of the technology? I do not think so at all.
Contents
- 1: Considerations, Reflections & A First Suggested Solution.
- 2: The Logic, Emotion & Ethics of Writing about Artificial Intelligence & Beyond.
- 3: AI at the Center vs. Humans at the Center of our Considerations.
- 4: AI, Ethics & Potentially Supporting Solutions.
- 5: Intelligence, Learning & Sense of Reality.
- 6: Science Fiction, Technological Societies & Human Intelligence.
- 7: Technologies & Human Skills, Methods & Processes.
- 8: A First Suggested Methodological Approach Towards Solutions.
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