People might be interested in the webcomic “Forward”, which is set on a near-ish future Earth (there are Mars colonies but no interstellar travel) in which AI robots are commonplace for service jobs (including, ahem, “personal services”). One of the things that people are brought up to know is that Robots Are Not People, however much they behave like people, and they are always referred to as “it”. There are strict laws against robots impersonating people (for example, a robot can be more or less humanoid, but its hands must not have five fingers). There is some hinted-at history of the events that led to such customs and laws.
Cons: It’s rather slow-moving. The author only posts a new strip once a week, and in more than four years of real time it has only covered a week or two of story time. The politics (in the background, but there) may also rub some people the wrong way.
ETA: I see from today’s instalment that it has actually covered a day and a half of story time.
Thanks for the link. It is quite good. A limitation, that the author would not have been aware of when starting, but is now “glaring”, is that his AI’s are “rule based”.
People might be interested in the webcomic “Forward”, which is set on a near-ish future Earth (there are Mars colonies but no interstellar travel) in which AI robots are commonplace for service jobs (including, ahem, “personal services”). One of the things that people are brought up to know is that Robots Are Not People, however much they behave like people, and they are always referred to as “it”. There are strict laws against robots impersonating people (for example, a robot can be more or less humanoid, but its hands must not have five fingers). There is some hinted-at history of the events that led to such customs and laws.
Cons: It’s rather slow-moving. The author only posts a new strip once a week, and in more than four years of real time it has only covered a week or two of story time. The politics (in the background, but there) may also rub some people the wrong way.
ETA: I see from today’s instalment that it has actually covered a day and a half of story time.
Thanks for the link. It is quite good. A limitation, that the author would not have been aware of when starting, but is now “glaring”, is that his AI’s are “rule based”.