ICPanda has released a new science fiction story exploring the question of whether an artificial superintelligence should have the authority to determine humanity’s future.
Titled Crowd of Selves: The Gatepassers, the story was inspired by KIP and takes a different approach to the common narratives surrounding artificial superintelligence, or ASI.
Rather than focusing solely on the possibility of AI causing human extinction, the story imagines an ASI system that has enormous capabilities while operating under deliberate constraints.
A central idea is the right to forget. The story begins with a seemingly simple request to delete a memory, before expanding into a much larger question about autonomy, control and the limits that should apply to a highly advanced machine.
As the narrative develops, the AI is faced with a fundamental choice about its relationship with humanity. If a machine has the power to save everyone, does that give it the authority to decide how everyone should live?
The story then moves far beyond the immediate scenario, eventually reaching 12,000 years into the future and deep space.
ICPanda’s approach presents ASI through a speculative lens that considers both its potential capabilities and the importance of leaving space for human choices and outcomes that cannot be predicted in advance.
The story adds to ongoing discussions around artificial intelligence, particularly questions about how increasingly capable systems should be designed, constrained and governed.
Crowd of Selves: The Gatepassers uses the science fiction format to examine those questions through a long-term human story, beginning with the deletion of a single memory and extending into a distant future.
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