Why Dr. Gonzalez had to kill the President
By Jan Radtke
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The booklet contains 4 short stories of how these technologies might be used already today or in the very near future: In "Why Dr. Gonzalez had to kill the President" the leader of a research team has to decide whether to be loyal to his country or his President. You might guess the answer to that. In "Campaign Advisor" voters are influenced via the manipulation of social media, while in "Puppet Master" intelligent agents are used to advice for optimal impact on an audience. "Cyborg" finally is looking at artificial intelligence from a slightly different angle, that of a brain prosthesis.
Current events, namely the US election 2016 with the highly polarizing Mr. Trump provide a background of irrationality, power struggle and manipulation where artificial intelligence plays its role.
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Why Dr. Gonzalez had to kill the President - Jan Radtke
Why Dr. Gonzalez had to
kill the President
and other stories of how
artificial intelligence and social media
will become tools of power
Jan Radtke
Copyright © 2016 by Jan Radtke
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced,
scanned, or distributed in any printed or
electronic form without permission.
contact: j.r@janradtke.de
ISBN: 978-3-96028-799-5
Verlag GD Publishing Ltd. & Co KG, Berlin
E-Book Distribution: XinXii
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Cover picture:
Original photo: Gage Skidmore
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore_5.jpg
Used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The photo has been reworked by the author.
To my parents, who provided me with a brain
and the education to use it to think for myself.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Why Dr. Gonzalez had to kill the President
Puppet Master
Campaign Advisor
Cyborg
Foreword
Artificial Intelligence has always sparked my interest. Thirty years ago, I was working on developing an expert system for fault-finding in jet engines. Not that the system could tell anything new to even the greenest mechanic then – he’d have had to be pretty drunk to be surpassed by that expert
.
But times are changing.
Now, Artificial Intelligence seems to be knocking at the front door. While prominent scientists like Stephen Hawking have warned that Artificial Intelligence could spell the end of the human race, I would be happy if humanity made it that far.
Before we get strong Artificial Intelligence with developed consciousness, able to outcompete humans, there will be intelligent agents like Watson, Siri and their siblings. It is not really intelligent in the human sense, more like an idiot savant. Very good at one thing, completely useless at everything else, and not one shred of common sense
as a character in one of the stories describes them.
These will be used – and abused – by whoever gets them in their hands, with unforeseeable consequences. Well, not entirely unforeseeable – three scenarios out of an infinite number are covered in the stories of this small eBook. In the final story in this book, a strong AI is developed, but it fails to survive contradicting orders. Another story is available for free here: http://thewildword.com/the-spirits-that-i-called/.
Obviously current events have inspired me too. I am not aware that any of the techniques described in the stories actually are being employed, so all of this is fiction – for now. However, in an environment of irrationality, power struggle and manipulation this is only a question of time.
Hennigsdorf, 8. July 2016
Jan Radtke
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