It's not like a serious debate yet but it's certainly talked about often and at great length. We consume vast amounts of media on that very subject everything from Space Odyssey, matrix, terminator A.I., Blade Runner, Almost Human (cancelled far too soon), Ultron and the Sentinels are the classic Marvel insight into the situation (i'm sure DC has their own versions too i'm not as familiar with their canon). We have reams and reams of books exploring the subject both as fiction and as ethical analysis.
The problem is that, like zombies or nuclear apocalypse, it's too far in the future for the collective mind of humanity and is dismissed and relegated to "pub chat" or geeky domain. People now, in general, aren't willing to take the prospect seriously enough. Even with drones delivering precision bombs to civilian spaces, and to be fair governments are doing a great job waving around real people in our faces, showing us all those soldiers coming back from combat zones and telling us "oh aren't they heroes!" We're not focussing on their equipment because the media doesn't talk about it generally. Only dedicated activists and interested techheads really keep score.
The rest of us still think this is a problem for a few generations down the line. It's fine, we're safe. We'll never have a drone fly over our town carrying enough.. Whatever.. to kill everyone in a 10 mile radius.
Hell, I live in Scotland and the amount of people that until last year didn't even know we have a nuclear sub situated in our largest population centre that could kill absolutely every last fucker in this country through blast zone or fallout areas was, in a word, flabbergasting. Ask anyone, that shit happens elsewhere. Not here. Never here.
I wonder why A.I and it's threats are not more talked about in public these days. We should be having a public debate about this, and a great one.
It's not like a serious debate yet but it's certainly talked about often and at great length. We consume vast amounts of media on that very subject everything from Space Odyssey, matrix, terminator A.I., Blade Runner, Almost Human (cancelled far too soon), Ultron and the Sentinels are the classic Marvel insight into the situation (i'm sure DC has their own versions too i'm not as familiar with their canon). We have reams and reams of books exploring the subject both as fiction and as ethical analysis.
The problem is that, like zombies or nuclear apocalypse, it's too far in the future for the collective mind of humanity and is dismissed and relegated to "pub chat" or geeky domain. People now, in general, aren't willing to take the prospect seriously enough. Even with drones delivering precision bombs to civilian spaces, and to be fair governments are doing a great job waving around real people in our faces, showing us all those soldiers coming back from combat zones and telling us "oh aren't they heroes!" We're not focussing on their equipment because the media doesn't talk about it generally. Only dedicated activists and interested techheads really keep score.
The rest of us still think this is a problem for a few generations down the line. It's fine, we're safe. We'll never have a drone fly over our town carrying enough.. Whatever.. to kill everyone in a 10 mile radius.
Hell, I live in Scotland and the amount of people that until last year didn't even know we have a nuclear sub situated in our largest population centre that could kill absolutely every last fucker in this country through blast zone or fallout areas was, in a word, flabbergasting. Ask anyone, that shit happens elsewhere. Not here. Never here.