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ST isn't military fiction. It's science fiction. Thinking about technology is absolutely one of its core aims. They had a whole episode about the legal and mor
by hgsgm 3y ago
ST isn't military fiction. It's science fiction. Thinking about technology is absolutely one of its core aims.
They had a whole episode about the legal and moral aspect of AI human rights.
- WJW 3y agoIt definitely seeks to explore the impact of many technologies, but the impact of AI was not really one of them. They spent one whole episode out of 178 on AI, and there was a _very_ small plotline near the start of TNG about Data wishing to be more human. EDIT: There was also the episode where a holodeck character gains true sentience, but then the crew proceeds to imprison it forever into a virtual world and this is treated by the show as the ethical thing to do. Trapping any human in a simulation is (correctly IMO) treated as a horrible thing, but doing it to an evidently sentient AI is apparently no problem.