In this dark hour mockery is our sword and shield. Good News From the Vatican is the 1971 science fiction short story by American author Robert Silverberg, featuring the election of a robot to the position of Pope of the Church of Rome. It won that year's Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Years later came Max Headroom. And now why not —→better than human our unsleeping AI President.
AI on the mainline, tell Him what you want
AI on the mainline, tell Him what you want
AI on the mainline, tell Him what you want
AI on the mainline now
Call Him up, call Him up, tell Him what you want
Call Him up, call Him up, tell Him what you want
Call Him up, call Him up, tell Him what you want
AI on the mainline now
If you want a healing touch, tell Him what you want
If you want a healing touch, tell Him what you want
If you want a healing touch, tell Him what you want
AI on the mainline now
https://www.marcelloveneziani.com/articoli/il-prossimo-premier-sara-un-robottino/
After having tried them all, prime ministers of the left, center and right, technocrats, financiers and populists, politicians and anti-politicians, rich and poor, male and female, we are left with only the final solution: the next prime minister will be a robot . I'm not joking or raving, you'll see along the way that the conversation will become serious, and even dramatic.
Therefore, I start from two authoritative, indeed top experts on the subject, with institutional positions: the former minister Roberto Cingolani and Giorgio Metta, at the top of the Italian institute of technology. The two are authors of the bible on technological transition: Humans and humanoids. Living with robots, published by Il Mulino. To begin with, the expression robot is derogatory, it means servant in Czechoslovakian; given the scenario that lies ahead, the two experts recommend defining them as collaborators, indeed "companies of the citizens", the robot is "a universal companion" (a cyber-communist, given the appellation of companion?). The new robots, they explain, are capable of interacting with human beings, assisting and guiding them; they are “robots able to communicate with each other and with humans, using the same language (verbal and gestural), capable of understanding fundamental situations and even of making small decisions necessary for the best performance of their task", possessing among their requisites "autonomy", ability to "cooperate", "sociality", surveillance, support, "guide and indications to the public , companionship, training, education and training” and “replacement of humans in hostile environments or for heavy work”. But it is the perfect curriculum for Palazzo Chigi! Everything coincides perfectly, even the ability to make "small decisions" (in fact, big decisions are not made by politicians). If they have to comply with EU, NATO, USA, ECB, Pnrr directives, etc. just a robot. What else are we going to look for, our comrade robot president is ideal for leading a government, not partisan and not incompetent, but scientifically out of the parts and technically very capable. Why waste it only on factories, domestic needs or other limited uses when it has all the qualifications to lead the nation? Better a government entirely of robots with reformatted ministries: the Minister of Algorithm and Surveillance in place of the Interior, the Minister of Transhuman Mutation which includes Development and Transition, the Minister of Artificial Intelligence which merges education and scientific research; the Minister of Correction, in place of culture; and then the Minister for Human Substitution, the Minister for Surrogate Humanity for the asexual reproduction of posthumans, the Minister for Composting anthropological residues who is responsible for disposing of defunct humanity between waste-to-energy plants and landfills, residual or excess; the Minister for Permanent Vaccination, to genetically modify men and replace health with drugs; the minister for alternative nutrition who replaces the old ministries of agriculture, fisheries, etc.; and so on. There will also be a flat rate coupon for renting the uterus, ectogenesis and coupling with robots; and the 110% bonus for the replacement of obsolete or excessively consuming robots (also in the sense of spendthrift) and the switching of excise duties into incentives for eco-sustainable robot replacement parts. ectogenesis and mating with robots; and the 110% bonus for the replacement of obsolete or excessively consuming robots (also in the sense of spendthrift) and the switching of excise duties into incentives for eco-sustainable robot replacement parts. ectogenesis and mating with robots; and the 110% bonus for the replacement of obsolete or excessively consuming robots (also in the sense of spendthrift) and the switching of excise duties into incentives for eco-sustainable robot replacement parts.
Returning to today's reality, the declining birth rate in the West, it is repeated, will be replaced by migratory flows; instead to replace us, after having joined us, they will be the universal companions called robots. That a capillary revolution is underway that is changing not only the social landscape but also our minds, is now being said by many, cyberneticians, futurists, scientists but also philosophers. Salvatore Natoli, for example, in his recent book Il posto dell'uomo nel mondo (Feltrinelli), espouses the robotic horizons described above and notes "the extension of the dominion of the artificial over the regions of the mind" to the point of "modifying the cognitive schemes ” By now no cognitive activity, he adds, can be carried out without adequate technological support. And over time, it will not be supportive, but we will become the subjects of the robot,
With the help of the robot and its mother, artificial intelligence , we will pass – says the philosopher and this is confirmed by scientists and popularizers, from Lovelock to Boncinelli – from sexual polymorphism (enough with the ridiculous, old-fashioned male and female identities) to self-generation ; thanks to the aforementioned stem cells and robotic brain, replacement organs for sick or aged ones will be produced and "perfectly efficient organisms" will be built. The selection of the species will be much faster and more efficient than that described by Darwin, far beyond eugenics.
And finally curly a techno-bucolic utopia of the hippies in the sixties: "A cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutual programming harmony ... mammalian brothers and sisters, all watched over by machines of loving grace" (Richard Brautigan, poet visionary hippy indeed hallucinated, 1967). Until robots completely replace us mammals. Do you like it, does a utopia like this kindle you?
Things will get complicated when a robot is caught stealing and another robot devalued raping stupid mammals who trusted them…