Fiction anticipated training-data ethics through engineered intelligence bound to engineered intent

Evidence

Illuminates AI/IP: Atwood’s near-future novel of biotech-driven extinction includes the most prescient depiction in fiction of training-data ethics: the “Extinctathon” game, the pharma-engineered post-humans, the boy genius Crake. Placed beside debates on AI safety, Oryx and Crake illuminates how engineered intelligence is always also engineered intent. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1056

Categorization

  • SEED: The Extinctathon game as a training-data ethics parable could anchor an essay on fiction anticipating AI-safety debates.
  • XREF: connects to: A stolen-manuscript novel anticipates generative AI ownership disputes — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 258; Fiction can reveal the affective seductions underpinning voluntary data extraction.

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