“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” analyzes several popular concepts in science fiction, including the prevalence of hyper-intelligent AI lording over humanity and the apocalypse via our own hands. I think that there are more instances of seemingly malicious AI in science fiction stories than there are purely positive examples. While widely recognized as a logical step forward technology wise for humanity, they are also treated with an enormous amount of skepticism from both storytellers and real-world scientists like Stephen Hawking. AI as a literary tool represents the purest form of humanity’s logical side. AI can only reason, and has no emotion or moral preconceptions that most humans have. So, from HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey, to the Terminators, to the AI from Wall-E, when given a simple directive such as ‘protect humanity’ will invariably reason itself to the conclusion that the best way to protect humanity is to enslave them, or kill them. Without knowing something as...
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