Mary Shelley’s 1817 masterpiece Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus Credits:
Credits: Credits: Credits: I, Robot I MITATIONS Credits: Rossum’s Universal Robots
Credits: S ECOND C LASS C ITIZENRY C YLONS Credits:
SPIELBERG’S AI Credits: Credits: I MITATIONS DO NOT ALWAYS GO BERSERK B ICENTENNIAL M AN
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” ~ Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776 ~ Credits: Credits: 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…
Credits: Credits: THE LONG MARCH OF CIVIL RIGHTS 1860 Credits: Frederick Douglass Abraham Lincoln Martin Luther King, Jr.Lyndon B. Johnson to
In the past two centuries… Monsters / Things Credits: Illustration by Harry Brockway from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Robot / Slave Credits: Illustration by Harry Brockway from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Credits: s Artificial Intelligence Hello Dave 1968s Stanley Kubrick’s HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey Credits: Artificial Intelligence made Frankenstein-like stories plausible The creation of a credible, digital person
Credits: Rossum’s Universal Robots (1922) Credits:
Star Trek: Measure of a Man (1989) Credits: Commander Data Civil Rights of Digital People
Human Woman Slave Robot Automaton
Credits: Immigration Credits: Civil Rights March Credits: Rosie the Riveter Credits: 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.
Thank you. 20 July