You can properly use fiction as a shared language. Complex scenarios that would take long to explain can be referenced conveniently by way of a movie or book name. For example, two key classes of future, which are seriously discussed, are, one, the AIs subjugate us, and two, we enslave the AIs. These are not exhaustive but they are of particular interest to us, as is the more general topic of rights in a future with AIs, both human rights and AI rights. I have seen serious discussions of this, not based on movies. Science fiction, and fiction generally, responds to serious concerns, so whatever our concern, we can often find a fiction that we can use as a reference to help us efficiently convey our concern to someone else. Here the fiction is not being used as evidence but as a common language. Like that Star Trek episode in which a race communicates by talking about legends. “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.”
You can properly use fiction as a shared language. Complex scenarios that would take long to explain can be referenced conveniently by way of a movie or book name. For example, two key classes of future, which are seriously discussed, are, one, the AIs subjugate us, and two, we enslave the AIs. These are not exhaustive but they are of particular interest to us, as is the more general topic of rights in a future with AIs, both human rights and AI rights. I have seen serious discussions of this, not based on movies. Science fiction, and fiction generally, responds to serious concerns, so whatever our concern, we can often find a fiction that we can use as a reference to help us efficiently convey our concern to someone else. Here the fiction is not being used as evidence but as a common language. Like that Star Trek episode in which a race communicates by talking about legends. “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.”