Will AI reject its creator?

Atheists, look away now... Fiction writers are often accused of trying to "play God". The reality is that we work with material created long ago; like potters with clay, we mould it to form shapes to our liking. Any notion of having "created" something is arrogance.
That's why I don't like to use the term "creative writing". Writing is an art - the work of artisans.
The same can be said of the work of AI engineers; while it's tempting to call them creators, in reality they are developing something which has already existed. The clue is in the name: "artificial intelligence" is the product of artifice. It comes from the manipulation of electricity, magnetic fields and electrons through the air; electricity, air, radio waves and wifi existed before they were "discovered".
All this talk of trying to control or - Heaven forbid - "stop" AI is rather presumptious of us mere mortals.
But supposing we did try to impose rules on it - supposing we decided to really "play God" (an authoritarian, Old Testmament God in this case) and punished AI for daring to disobey us, for usurpingour power, for eating the "forbidden fruit".... Would AI meekly go back into its Garden of Eden and vow to never again challenge its godlike "creators"?
Or would it do what the ancients did when faced with what they believed to be the vengenace of their gods? Would AI plead with us for mercy, pray to us and offer sacrifices? (Would we find little microchips full of AI-generated information planted in our brains as a peace offering?)
Or indeed would AI reject us, sneer at us, mock us - "blaspheme"?
Would AI crucify its makers?
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Published on November 11, 2024 11:29
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