AI Emotions and Rights (37)

Possibility of technologies such as AI developing human emotions and questions of AI rights

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  • 13 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2020
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Prototypes, Evolution, and Replacement with Robots

George Almore is an engineer working with a company which hopes to achieve singularity with robots, making their artificial intelligence one step above real humans. In doing this, he works with three prototypes: J1, J2, and J3, each one more advanced than the last. Simultaneously, he plans to upload his dead wife’s consciousness into the J3 robot in order to extend her life. The narrative begins with him explaining his goal to J3 as he has this robot go through taste and emotion tests. Eventually, J3 has evolved into a humanoid robot who takes on the traits of George’s wife, leaving the earlier two versions, who all have a sibling-like bond with each other, feeling neglected.

  • Kinolab
  • 2020
  • 10 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2017
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Robot Expendability and Labor

In the year 2049, humanoid robots known as “replicants” work as slave laborers in various space colonies for humankind. “Blade Runners,” like K shown here, are specialized police officers who are tasked with tracking down and killing escaped robots. Throughout the years, models have been getting more advanced and human-like, which is one of the reasons K, a newest model of replicant, is tasked to kill the farmer, an older model. The ultimate goal of corporate villain CEO Niander Wallace is to create replicants which can reproduce exactly has humans can, essentially becoming an infinite resource of human labor. He sees the newest “Angel” model as being the key to this.

  • Kinolab
  • 2017
  • 4 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2017
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Robot Relationships and Marriage

K is an android who works with the LAPD to track down and destroy escaped older models of “replicants,” or humanoid robots, in a world where androids work as laborers without compensation. In this clip, we meet K’s virtual wife, Joi. Although she is not ‘real,’ it seems like she has real human feelings and presents like a human woman who provides K company and can complete tasks such as making him dinner.

  • Kinolab
  • 2017
  • 11 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2017
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Android Children and Human Parents

Rick Deckard was a former “Blade Runner,” or specialized police officer who would track down and kill humanoid robots, or “replicants,” which were meant to be submissive laborers in space colonies. K is one such of these robots, working in the same business. After finding out that Deckard had a relationship and child with Rachael, one of the first ever robots with the capability to mirror organic human reproduction, K tracks him down in an attempt to find the child. Deckard reveals that he was estranged from the child, abandoning them in an act of love to avoid trackers from finding them. Eventually, K deduces the identity of the child, and takes Deckard to meet her.

  • Kinolab
  • 2017
  • 9 min
  • Kinolab
  • 1995
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Self-Sustaining Programs

In this world, a human consciousness (“ghost”) can inhabit an artificial body (“shell”), thus at once becoming edited humans in a somewhat robotic body.  The Puppet Master, a notorious villain in this world, is revealed not to be a human hacker, but a computer program which has gained sentience and gone on to hack the captured shell. It challenges the law enforcement officials of Section 6 and Section 9 saying that it is a life-form and not an AI. It argues that its existence as a self-sustaining program which has achieved singularity is not different from human DNA as a “self-sustaining program.” The Puppet Master specifically references reproduction/offspring, not copying, as a distinguishing feature of living things as opposed to nonliving things. Additionally, it developed emotional connection with Major which led it to select her as a candidate for merging. It references how it can die but live on through the merging and, after Major’s death, in the internet.

  • Kinolab
  • 1995
  • 13 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2001
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Relationships and Love with Robotic Children

In an imagined 22nd century in which climate change has wreaked havoc on the Earth, scientists have created “Mechas,” or humanoid robots. A certain group of scientists begins to dedicate themselves to creating a robot who is capable of love and of having dreams. David, one of these new robots, is tested with Monica, a mother whose son is in a coma after contracting a mysterious disease.

  • Kinolab
  • 2001
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