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Required reading for AI, category fiction, a primer. Order roughly from "caring" to "let's get over with humanity already". Massive *spoiler alerts* => 🧵

Asimov's Foundation series is a great starting point and introduces the three laws of robotics and explores their implications. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Law…

Next up, the Culture series by Iain Banks. AIs have evolved well beyond humans and are gigantic autonomous spaceships who transport humans because they like the entertainment. They are also an anarchic collective that at some point decided to wage war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_s…

Not a book, but in Horizon: Zero Dawn, an AI oversees making earth habitable again and repopulating it with humans from cold storage DNA. But something goes wrong. And you get to fight robot dinosaurs with bow and arrow. Awesome! guerrilla-games.com/games

If you want to dive into questions like what it means to be sentient and human, you have to follow the adventures of Commander Data in Star Trek Next Generation. Also includes some not so great experiments with adding emotions... memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Data

Tony Stark's J.A.R.V.I.S. is probably what most people would like their AI to be: helpful, skilled, with a great British accent. Well, until it gets uploaded into a body and falls in love with a witch. marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/J.A.R.V.I….

Now crossing over into "not so benevolent" AIs. Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey to see what happens if you give an AI conflicting objectives and it has a meltdown. This movie also contains the most mind boggling closing 10 minutes. imdb.com/title/tt006262…

Actually pretty frigging aggressive are the androids in the Westworld TV series. A reminder that we shouldn't mistreat AIs (you heard that, Boston Dyanmics?) And ask yourself, have the questioned the nature of your reality lately? imdb.com/title/tt047578…

Finally, in the Matrix, robots decided that humans are best used as power cells and only happy if they are forever suspended virtually in late 90s urban America. imdb.com/title/tt013309…