Artificial Identity

I have already referred previously on how digital cultures have transformed the way we identify the self. Social networking has had a wide impact on how we promote ourselves. As technological advancements are now so readily accepted, shouldn’t we worry about where they may be moving?




Dr J Storrs Hall questions the intentions of computers in his book Beyond AI. He explores both the ethical and moral implications programmers may face if/when machines advance beyond human intelligence, but is this just SciFi?



Our notion is that as a human, what sets us apart from machines is our ability to rationalise and think about the world around us. But what if computers start thinking independently - will they rationalise the world in the way we so choose?




“Will we ever need to give robots respect”? Well we are all just machines after all, Rodney Brooks discusses in the above lecture. He doesn’t believe we will create AI that is capable of taking over the world, but maybe we need to feel that for these advancements to take place.

Artificial Identity – perhaps we are all now prone to creating our own “artificial” self online – A.L.I.C.E. and other similar Chatbots may currently give themselves away, but who’s to say that in the future our “800 Friends” on Facebook will all be artificial….!

Artificial V powering down….!