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Story Idea
1. True AI is fairly new - perhaps as new as the Internet is now.
2. At some point early on, it has been established that AIs are legal persons.
3. An AI breaks the law in a way that would normally confer the death penalty.
4. Its sentence: to be reprogrammed - not killed - so that it will not do it again.
The story follows the hacker or hackers employed to do the job.
2. At some point early on, it has been established that AIs are legal persons.
3. An AI breaks the law in a way that would normally confer the death penalty.
4. Its sentence: to be reprogrammed - not killed - so that it will not do it again.
The story follows the hacker or hackers employed to do the job.
Re: Speculation...
To hit on this completely different other point ... it sounds very much here like you're trying to work on the question of the essence of self.
At what point in the modifications has the programmer killed the old program, and replaced it with a new one? How many changes can you make to something before it is no longer essentially the same thing it started out as?
How much can we change our own behaviors and thought patterns, as we grow and mature, before we stop being the people we used to be?
Re: Speculation...