Forum Week 11

The idea of technology taking over the world has been a great influence for many artists. The film industry has offered a great deal of material on the subject, films like the Terminator series, I Robot, The Matrix and has been a very popular topic in the anime field with films like Vexille and Ghost in the Shell. As technology is taking over more and more aspects of our lives and that these technologies are becoming more intuitive it make you wonder if they're intuitiveness becomes an Artificial Intelligence and they start ignoring our requests. When a machine can build a better version of itself is that too far? Do we need to keep them out of the loop? In all these films mentioned above it seems to be that when a machine can do this it ends or enslaves the human race, is there some truth behind this? Would a machine realise that we humans are the creator of our problems and try to fix us? I'm still very unsure, humans need to be kept in the loop, i don't know the power of AI and if it was close to simulating human consciousness it would be slightly worrying.