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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

For a long time, I resisted reading Murderbot, despite all the accolades (for reasons I'll get into in a sec).

I just finished watching it on Apple+, it's brilliant, #hopepunk AF, you should definitely watch/read it.

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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

I've read SF since I was a kid in the 70s & I've been a huge fan of "sentient robot" stories all along.

I,ROBOT & BICENTENNIAL MAN were some of my absolute favs & I was beside myself when I, ROBOT went to film.

These stories pinged hard on my social justice nerves plus it was nerdy cool tech.

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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

I've also written stories re: morality & implications of creating "artificial intelligence" both enhanced humans& machine intelligence.

My Singularity series is about the human side, with these two short stories directly about limiting bot intelligence (much like Murderbot's governor module).
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

So why the resistance to Murderbot?

In short: cuz tech companies are using the "sentient bot" story as part of their genAI hype and con, both the cozy version and the scary skynet version (& AGI)

Longer reason: I've been increasingly concerned about our storytelling around AI for a decade...

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