This being so, it strikes me as significant that the authors I've seen who *do* imbue their robots/AIs with culture and personality tend to have more diverse backgrounds; these are stories where people have culture, so if robots are people, then THEY have culture, too.
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Anyway - this musing brought to you courtesy of the wonderful novella All Systems Red by
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have you seen Westworld b/c I just binged both seasons and would be fascinated to hear how you think it does / doesn't play to the "robots = SWM" dynamic you are talking about here
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I've seen the first season, and wrote a huge review of it here: https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/westworld-dehumanising-the-other/ …
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The only robot story I’ve read is fanfic and the robots have an online community that humans cannot access and don’t know about
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Do you read the webcomic Freefall? I've always liked the AI rights story threaded through it, and I think it does reasonably well in this light. I think I might have to go back through the archive with this in mind, though...
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So, I have a few favorite sci fi stories with AI, but they definitely were written by people who see cultures and value diversity. My first fav is Hellspark by Janet Kagan. One theme is definitely that culture influences who is seen as sentient.
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Try westworld, very unconventional view of AI imo
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This thread is so fascinating! I'd never looked at it that way. And you're right the "intelligence" displayed by most SF robots is very specific, very western culture, very white academia, very male...Interesting that intelligence ALWAYS equated with being non-emotional.
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And it's linked that that "genius" archetype media worships where being highly intelligent/logical makes the character emotionally oblivious rather than emotionally intelligent, despite being otherwise perceptive. Another fantasy: a free pass to be cruel because he's "smarter"
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<3 I still want to write that story about a platonic relationship between a space station and a spaceship hahaha. (my robots mostly do family structures because of the way they're made)
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