The Black Box: Introduction
Welcome!
This is a short fictional piece focusing on the ideas of Vitalist materialism and the technologically mediated society.
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Idea of the story:
An ethical decision is one where one chooses how to respond to a given situation based on values of “good/right” and “bad/wrong”, as opposed to mere expediency or efficiency
- Dystopian society
- The Black Box: Machine AI
- Rules the ethical decision making of society- for humans, and in place of humans
- Chooses the leader, teaches how to resolve problems within ethical boundaries,
- Well-being of self vs. that of others
- Rules the ethical decision making of society- for humans, and in place of humans
- Based on a set of laws + manifesto: this was intentionally left unreadable and open-ended for the audience to imagine.
- The chapters will iterate the following topics:
- Programmed ethics vs. Human ethics.
- Post-Anthropocentrism
- Life beyond species
- The possibility of a different outcome based on decisions made by the machine.
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- The Black Box William Youm
- Table of Contents William Youm