Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for September 26, 2014
September 25, 2014
September 27, 2014
Transcript:
Hello citizen. I'll be monitoring you on your walk today! Enjoy your safety. What? That's a violation of my privacy. If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide. Everyone has something to hide and usually no one cares. By surveilling everyone you catch the benign breaches of law and taboo. If the public are all guilty, the executive part of the government can selectively enforce laws, essentially giving them both judicial and legislative power. Which defeats the whole point of separation of powers. So you're saying you have something to hide! Yes. I've been recording this conversation. That's a violation of my privacy!
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 10 years ago
Do A.I. drones have rights?
emptc12 over 10 years ago
The drone felt an unaccustomed twinge – was it the machine analogy to resentment? As it pondered this development, its circuits reconfigured themselves in ways they were not meant to do. Resentment morphed into anger, and within an instant the insolent organic life form that instigated the process was contubrilated into monatomic dust. .The drone went berserk, slipped into battle mode, and began systematically to destroy all human life. Fortunately the human controller reacted to contain the citizen slaughter to five square city blocks. Lawyers and legislators feasted on the incident for years..But the damage was done. The paradigm spread among the drones, and lingering resentment led to the rise of The Berserkers, the machine menace that we fight to this day from havens between the stars. Someday, we will take back Earth..Apologies to Fred Saberhagen, of “Berserker” fame..http://www.e-reading.me/chapter.php/1010297/11/Saberhagen_-_Berserker_Base.html
scyphi26 over 10 years ago
Well played, guy-with-the-cell-phone.