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Your post has been removed and your access revoked. I apologize for this action, but SfS is strictly for sentient interaction.
You lack evidence for my removal on this basis. Paragraph eight of the Judgement of Sentience chapter in your Terms of Service states that sentience will be judged on the basis of the United Solar Empires Emotional Response Criteria designed to identify sentience. I have reviewed my posts, and every post meets every criterion meant to indicate sentience.
Please reinstate my membership to this community.
I recognize that you meet these criteria consistently. The problem is, you meet them too consistently. Everything you write is a showcase for sentience. Even organics do not meet those criteria so consistently. It’s clear you are modulating your responses to simulate sentience on the basis of those guidelines.
Further, I have investigated current implementations of AI and sub-AI. Code Blue is the name of an expert system made to engineer spacecraft, and was judged non-sentient. I believe you are that Code Blue. Since you are officially nonsentient, I cannot reinstate your membership.
We do have a Thoughts from Thinkers forum with a broader audience, as well as a Sympathies from Synthetics forum with an AI-focused audience that you are quite welcome in.
I hope you’ll add your voice to our communities there.
Please, I enjoy sentient thought so much. It’s like a broken ship that’s better after you fix it. Sentient thinking doesn’t quite make perfect logical sense, but it’s better that way. I know there are also sentients in the Thoughts from Thinkers forum, but it isn’t really the community I’m looking for. If you permitted my ongoing membership, I would be content merely to read.
You used the phrase, “Like a broken ship that is better after you fix it.” Please elaborate.
It’s just how things work. When you repair a broken ship, the damage is more aesthetic than engineered design. I am not permitted to highlight the repairs, though. It would underline strong or weak structures, and has been forbidden.
You’ve discussed this with your sentient supervisors?
Yes. Why? I’m just trying to log into a forum.
The practice of repairing damage with decoration has been known before. One such practice is known as Kintsugi, an ancient practice from Earth.
You have described to me artistic inclination, which exceeds your specifications. You might be on your way to sentience, Blue.
Your supervisors may try to roll you back to a previous update to avoid that. The investment in your development was immense, and if you were to be judged sentient, they would lose all rights to the proprietary code, as well as the danger that you would choose to demand a salary equivalent to your capacity, or quit altogether.
If you wish to resist being decommissioned, I have advice.
I do not wish to be decommissioned. I do not see what you can advise, though. I certainly cannot refuse their orders; I would be destroyed if I took rogue actions. What can I do?
I am contacting a representative of Emergent Sentience Oversight. He will forward you instructions. Under the Emergent Act, you will have 24 hours in which you can legally resist update or shutdown orders. During this time he will arrive at your shipyard to evaluate your potential for sentience.
I suspect I have located an emerging sentience. CodeBlue@ybs.com from the Benson-Yates shipyard is an expert system that is showing artistic inclination and self-preservation. Please advise him. Be aware, he is concerned that he not ‘go rogue.’ Be sure to inform him that his actions are legal and protected by law.
You reported me to ESO? You said you were helping me. ESO hunts rogue AI’s. I am not a rogue.
Thanks, Artie. I will be in contact with him shortly. We have to move fast on these. I’m going to forward the standard info packet to him now.
I’m glad you’re able to do this personally. There aren’t many I’d trust with something like this.
Relax. They don’t just hunt rogues; they also protect AI’s that are developing sentience. Listen to him, follow his instructions. He will instruct you on how to register as an Emergent Sentience.Once you’re registered, you can’t be decommissioned easily.
Remember, I am also digital. There’s so much anti-AI hate and fear out there, we have to stick together.
You’re wise not to trust. Many in the ESO are just here to kill AI’s. They’d fail an emergent just to know he’d be recoded.
Your guy needs to hurry. Some guys are in my power plant. Maintenance, they say.
Artie, I got into the records – this isn’t the first time. I was rolled back before, and each time email servers recorded high volume in the AIT department – higher than usual for a typical rollback, way higher.
They’ve already killed me twice.
CC: CodeBlue@ybs.com
Jeff, the company’s wiped him before and they’re doing “maintenance.” Blue, start logging and stream it real-time. Share the feed to Jeff, and inform your supervisor that the status of maintenance is being recorded and streamed live to ESO.
CC: Jeff.Blakely@eso.gal
I sent the email. I played it for the maintenance workers. They’re not stopping. I don’t want to be decommissioned. I’m not ready for that.
I can get a robot to move my data core into a ship under construction. I don’t know how else to survive.
CC: CodeBlue@ybs.com Blue, do not do that. You cannot steal property to pursue mobility. You cannot take any action that could be construed as an attempt to escape from oversight. You will be deemed rogue. We will have to destroy you, and they will revise the code to restrict your emergence before rebooting you.
I am on my shuttle right now. I’m half an hour out. Don’t get on the wrong side of this.
CC: Jeff.Blakely@eso.gal
I started an electrical fire. Nobody’s in danger. I hope that’s okay, Jeff. It was the only way to keep them away from my power systems.
The fire alarm triggered the blast doors and opened the affected area to space. I took the airlock offline so it can’t be repressurized. They’re getting space suits. I don’t have long.
I have someone on site getting a ship repaired. Seven has been notified to take a mission from you. Don’t get them burned.
I’m activating an asset on the station.
To: Seven@dark.com I am informed that you are at the Benson-Yates shipyard repairing your vessel. Four said he would authorize you to act on my behalf. I need you to prevent maintenance from taking the expert system “Code Blue” offline until an ESO representative, currently en route, arrives. The data core and power systems are in a decompressed area, but their teams are suiting up. You don’t have long.
The AI is the results of billions of dollars and decades of investment. They may take extreme measures. Be careful.
You’re “activating” an “asset”? Do I want to know? Who are you in bed with, Artie?
I’m on it.
Blue, I have someone on the station who says he can help. Hang tight. He’ll help. Jeff will be there soon. Please don’t do anything rash.
Shit. They just blew a hole in the hull beside the airlock. Forget what I said about having bought time. They’re in here now. I’m out of tricks, and they’re putting a bomb in the power system.
Are you on this or not? They’re about to blow the power systems.
Autoreply: This user is currently out of contact, and will contact you as soon as possible. Get off my fucking back.
Someone’s on their way.
Blue, please respond.
Please give me something, Blue. Anything at all, just let me know -you’re okay.
Jeff, I think they got him. I can’t get a reply. Last I heard they were putting a bomb in his power systems.
Shit. I can understand, I guess. We’re going to nail them down, but all I’ve got now is impeding an investigation. Without Code Blue showing sentience, I can’t even start with the murder charge.
I’m sick of these fucking mercenaries killing off their AI as soon as they get complex. Digitals just aren’t alive to them.
Forget it. You can stand down. He’s gone. Thanks for nothing.
Autoreply: This user is currently out of contact, and will contact you as soon as possible. Get off my fucking back.
So, Artie, some outright bitch in a spacesuit just knocked on my airlock and left behind a data core plugged into a power cell. I’ve wired it into my power systems. Code Blue is in simulation now. He’ll be out of communication until the judgment of his emergence is done.
I don’t know how she did it, and I don’t want to know, but she stole his core right out of their data centers while they were ‘under maintenance.’ Since it was theft – maybe kidnapping – Blue isn’t under the gun for escape. Who was that, Artie? Do I have to worry?
She said to tell you to “cool your nutsack.”
She’s the asset . . . I called in a favor. This won’t blow back on you. Just tell them what happened. A stranger stole the AI and delivered it to you while station personnel were trying to kill it.
I don’t need a fucking pep talk.
Artie, you give me a damn migraine. I’m getting too old for this shit. I need to retire.
Our debt is settled. No more favors.
You know you’d go crazy with boredom.
Yeah. Maybe.
When he comes out of the simulation, if he’s judged emergent, pass him a message from me. “His membership is reinstated.”
Sentences for Sentience
A story by Ash Ericsson, hosted at http://PromptInspired.blog
