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The Intertwined Histories of Artificial Life and Civil Rights

Terasem’s 7 th Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology. The Intertwined Histories of Artificial Life and Civil Rights. Martine Rothblatt. 20 July 2011. Mary Shelley’s 1817 masterpiece. Frankenstein:  The Modern Prometheus. Credits: http://www.mightyape.co.nz.

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The Intertwined Histories of Artificial Life and Civil Rights

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  1. Terasem’s 7th Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology The Intertwined Histories of Artificial Life and Civil Rights Martine Rothblatt 20 July 2011

  2. Mary Shelley’s 1817 masterpiece Frankenstein:  The Modern Prometheus Credits: http://www.mightyape.co.nz

  3. Rossum’s Universal Robots Imitations Credits: http://en.wikipedia.org I, Robot Credits: http://www.ibeatyou.com Credits: http://canadianchristianity.com Credits: http://www.technologyblogged.com

  4. SecondClass Citizenry Cylons Credits: http://www.stormgrounds.com/wallpaper/Entertainment/Cylon Credits: http://www.stonebridge.com

  5. Imitations do not always go berserk SPIELBERG’S AI Credits: http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2001/07 Bicentennial Man Credits: http://outsidernarratives.blogspot.com

  6. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”  ~ Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776 ~ Slaves, women and other oppressed people occupied the role of being an imitation of a human.  In the latter 1700s slavery was a part of life… In the latter 1700s women had no rights… Credits: http://ebookstore.sony.com Credits: http://remnanttrust.ipfw.edu

  7. the long march of civil rights 1860 Abraham Lincoln Frederick Douglass to Credits: http://www.archives.gov Credits: http://www.vanderbilt.edu 1960 Lyndon B. Johnson Martin Luther King, Jr. Credits: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org Credits: http://www.drmartinlutherking.net

  8. In the past two centuries… Credits: Illustration by Harry Brockway from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. http://foliosociety.org.uk Credits: http://canadianchristianity.com Robot / Slave Monsters / Things Illustration by Harry Brockway from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

  9. 1950s Artificial Intelligence 1968s Stanley Kubrick’s HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey Hello Dave Credits: http://spacecollective.org Credits: http://www.moviewallpapers.net Artificial Intelligence made Frankenstein-like stories plausible The creation of a credible, digital person

  10. Rossum’s Universal Robots (1922) Credits: http://en.wikipedia.org Enhancing Humans Credits: http://movingfilms.wordpress.com

  11. Star Trek: Measure of a Man (1989) Civil Rights of Digital People Commander Data Credits:http://en.wikipedia.org

  12. Robot Human Slave Woman Automaton

  13. Young Frankenstein Civil Rights March Credits: http://www.blingcheese.com Credits: http://www.ccrh.org Rosie the Riveter Immigration Credits: http://www.immigrationdnatesting.us/ Credits: http://www.pophistorydig.com

  14. The lesson of intertwined cultural histories of techno-human imitations and civil rights is clear: • That which values life, regardless of its form, heritage or • substrate, will demand to be respected in its value of life; • Tolerate substrate diversity easily in its beginnings, or • tolerate it hard in the end; • If something thinks like a human, it will want to be loved, • it will resent being abandoned and it will channel its anger • in strange and unpredictable ways; and • Better for all that we love, nurture and respect that which • we create in our likeness.

  15. Thank you. Martine4@gmail.com 20 July 2011

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