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• 10 min
• Engadget
• 2021

This article provides an excerpt from a book detailing the “Brooksian Revolution,” a movement in the 1980s pressing the idea that the “intelligence” of AI should start from a foundation of acute awareness of its environment, rather than “typical” indicators of intelligence such as pure logic or problem solving. By principle, a reasoning machine-learning loop that operates off of a one-time perception of its environment is inherently disconnected from its environment.

• Singularity
• Scientific Innovation
• Machine Learning
• Robots

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• 4 min
• Kinolab
• 2001

“Gigolo Joe” is an android sex worker in an imagined future in which “Mechas,” or humanoid robots, have risen to prominence after a climate disaster. He performs his duties without hiding the fact that he is an android.

• Technology Based Economic Disruption
• AI Emotions and Rights
• Robots

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• 12 min
• Kinolab
• 1968

See HAL Part I for further context. In this narrative, astronauts Dave and Frank begin to suspect that the AI which runs their ship, HAL, is malfunctioning and must be shut down. While they try to hide this conversation from HAL, he becomes aware of their plan anyway and attempts to protect himself so that the Discovery mission in space is not jeopardized. He does so by causing chaos on the ship, leveraging his connections to an internet of things to place the crew in danger. Eventually, Dave proceeds with his plan to shut HAL down, despite HAL’s protestations and desire to stay alive.

• AI Emotions and Rights
• Workplace Safety
• Internet of Things
• Robots

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• 11 min
• Kinolab
• 1990

Commander Data, an android, uses his technological skills to acquire knowledge to create a new android, his daughter Lal, in his own image without human help or oversight. He then guides Lal through the process of incorporating into the human world through means such as allowing her to choose her own gender and appearance, teaching her about laughter, and warning about human perception of difference. Ultimately, when he is asked to turn his daughter over to Star Fleet, he refuses on the grounds that it is his obligation as Lal’s parent to help her mature and acclimate to society, and captain Picard agrees that Lal is no one’s property but rather Data’s own child.

• AI Emotions and Rights
• Singularity
• Robots

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• 2 min
• Kinolab
• 1982

Tron, a security program within the digital world, is thought dead and mourned by fellow programs Yori and Dumont.

• AI Emotions and Rights
• Singularity
• Virtual Reality
• Robots

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• 2 min
• Kinolab
• 1990

With his homing signal activated, the android Data takes control of the USS Enterprise and its systems and blocks the human crew from stopping him. For further reading, see the narrative Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading.

• Cyber Crime
• Workplace Safety
• Internet of Things
• Robots