Can Fiction and Fiction Writers help in the Development and Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Systems?
According to Scientists, the future of AI lies in the hands of fiction writers
We are amazing biological machines, shaped and formed by our lives, imagination, work, love, knowledge, relationships, and skills. When we think about AI, we immediately think about a Dystopian world, where humans are out to destroy humans. The Terminator movie franchise has helped in promoting this negative version of artificial intelligence in popular culture.
I think that more than half of humanity is nervous about using AI and unsure if we are “handing over our lives to machines”. Artificial Intelligence was created by inventive human minds, with the power of imagination and creativity.
Fiction writers have always provided scientists with great ideas of things to create to make life easier for humans. Great writers like Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Jules Verne among several others provided marvelous ideas about new machines that were later created in laboratories by scientists.
The best way for fiction writers to lead this positive advancement in the field of AI is to write stories about how IT can help humanity. Have you written a story about AI, that has a good ending, with machines guiding humans to live a longer, better, and brighter life?
Fiction writers do not have the technological know-how for making complex machines, that can do amazing jobs. However, writers have their life experiences, creativity, imagination, and the desire to dream, filled with hope, to write stories about machines that can do wonderful things to help humankind.
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