Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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The author of All Systems Red, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, on why her novella takes on the thorny topic of what a machine intelligence might do, if it could make its own choices

, one of my goals was to think about what a machine intelligence would actually want, as opposed to what a human thinks alabelled as AIs that we have now aren’t any more sentient than a coffee cup and a good deal less useful for anything other than generating spam. , humans control their sentient constructs with governor modules that punish any attempt to disobey orders with pain or death. When Murderbot hacks its governor module, it becomes essentially free of human control.

Murderbot is angry, and that anger underlies a lot of its story. But once it hacks its governor module and no longer has the constant fear that any wrong or suspicious move will get it instantly punished or killed, it has the ability to make its own choices for the first time in its existence. But Murderbot has never had that freedom before; it’s not accustomed to making its own decisions about its behaviour and is immediately overwhelmed by choices.

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