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Concepts of civil rights and artificial consciousness were both born around 200 years ago, starting with Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein and the fight of progressives to end Britain's slave trade. As people have learned to award rights to all people who value them, regardless of gender, skin tone or ethnicity, people have subliminally absorbed the lesson that even artificially created consciousness, if it values human rights, deserves to have them.
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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
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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.
