AI in FT

Just my 2 cents worth.

I recall reading somewhere once that _Life is cheap, & Hardware is
expensive_  Certainly gives a valid reason why ships & fighters would
still have a crew.

By the way, I think this debate might be starting to get a little out of hand.

> Why send another human into battle and have them fight for you?

This is a good point and something that will have to be looked at when that
times comes...

If a computer becomes conscious then it becomes a "living machine".

It would be self aware, it could come up with a way to reproduce (build other
computers), it could theoriticaly grow (adding on to it's
self)..ect..

If we as humans commanded these computers as we do today... it would be
"slavery" in a sense... untill the time when the computers revlot against us
to have thier own freedoms... (which might be sooner than we think due
to the history that we have of such stuff  /  they would just look it
up.)

This would not happen if 1) The computer is programed not to think such
thoughts (in which case they would not be truly independed thinkers and not
ture AI

2) Or the computer is completely faithful and loyal to it's creator or the
race which created it.

3) Or (again) it was never asked to do things that it would think were
questionlable (WAR).

I'm all for AI and the possiblities it brings.. but there is a lot of
thinkning that the human race has to do be fore they start playing god, Mr
bigbang, or monkeyman what ever you believe... But if it is handled correctly
I believe that AI could benifit humankind greatly.

CMC