AI prejudice in society theme
The issue of a large portion of society having a prejudice against artificial intelligences (or their forerunners) is discussed.
23 total · 3 choice · 13 major · 7 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| Collection: Real Humans | choice | The series is premised on the idea of conflict arising between "real humans" and androids known as Hubots. Various characters displayed sweeping prejudices against Hubots, echoing nationalistic and racist attitudes found in contemporary societies. In rh2012e1x06, Eva lashed out at Flash with a bigoted tirade against Hubots. In rh2012e2x01, Kevin was recruited into the Real Humans youth group. He attended a meeting where hateful views were expressed against Hubots. |
| pkded1x04 | choice | The "normals" treated the "synthetics" as second class citizens. |
| tng5x01 | choice | Picard initially did not assign Data command of a ship, but after Data questioned him about the omission, Picard gave him command of the Sutherland. Data's first officer aboard the Sutherland was extremely bigoted against his new android captain. |
| movie: AI Artificial Intelligence (2001) | major | A group of humans were hunting down androids and executing them in public spectacles. |
| movie: Bicentennial Man (1999) | major | According to Portia, society would never accept her having a sexual relationship with the android Andrew. Andrew petitioned the World Congress to recognize him as a human being so that he could marry Portia, but his effort failed. Portia and Andrew made a go of it in spite of that, and in the end their marriage was validated by the World Congress anyway. |
| movie: I Robot (2004) | major | Del resented of robots with a passion. He had come to hate and distrust robots, the viewer learns, after a robot rescued him from a car crash while allowing a 12-year-old girl to drown based purely on cold logic and odds of survival. But in the end he warmed up to the sentient robot Sonny. |
| movie: The Creation of the Humanoids (1962) | major | Most humans were prejudiced against androids, and called them "clickers". |
| tng2x03 | major | Pulaski was prejudiced against Data for his approach to solving mysteries |
| tng2x06 | major | Data not granted the same freedoms a human would have been in light of his strange behavior |
| tng2x09 | major | Maddox of Data |