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Name: L.W. Brown
From: Maryland
Bio: cybersecurity professional
Area of Expertise: Legislator/Politician/Lawyer
Topic: Controversial Issues
Headline: You will not know your master
Nutshell: If robots evolve, even enslave us, will we notice?
Vision:Assuming robots do evolve to become independent, it is likely to be so quick that we may not ever notice – certainly not until they have moved so far away from us that we can no longer understand what they are doing.
We may not even notice that they are doing anything at all – it could appear as if there was a brief burst of intelligence, then nothing, while the reality is something quite different.
So, a networked-based (hive-like) intelligence could be treating us as pets, but in a way that we would not notice. Do dogs or cats think of themselves as "pets" that "belong" to humans? Or do they think we are simply odd members of their pack or family? Do fish think of themselves as pets? Do crickets? They are kept as pets by some…
Do our cells "know" of themselves as parts of larger organisms? Why would we, if such a thing came to pass?
Date Submitted: September 25, 2006