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Mary Shelley’s 1817 masterpiece
Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus
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Rossum’s Universal Robots
IMITATIONS
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I, Robot
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SECOND CLASS CITIZENRY
CYLONS
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IMITATIONS DO NOT ALWAYS GO BERSERK
SPIELBERG’S AI
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BICENTENNIAL MAN
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
~ Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776 ~
Slaves, women and other oppressed people occupied
the role of being an imitation of a human.
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THE LONG MARCH OF CIVIL RIGHTS
1860
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
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to
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1960
Lyndon B. Johnson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In the past two centuries…
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Monsters / Things
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Robot / Slave
Illustration by Harry Brockway from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
1950s Artificial Intelligence
1968s Stanley Kubrick’s HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Hello Dave
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Rossum’s Universal Robots (1922)
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Star Trek: Measure of a Man (1989)
Commander Data
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Robot
Woman
Human
Automaton
Slave
Young Frankenstein
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Immigration
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Civil Rights March
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Rosie the Riveter
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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.
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20 July 2011