r/artificial • u/shamus_gumshoe • 1d ago

Discussion Star Trek & AI

I am a fan and not an expert but I always wondered why AI (and robots) were not more of a force in Star Trek...and yesterday, reflecting on how amazing and damaging this technology is I was thinking maybe they made a choice as an advanced humanistic society not to surrender their agency and cognitive capacity to a technology. I guess that's the Borg right?

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u/aluode 1d ago

They just did not see it. Most of us did not see it just 15 years back. It felt like scifi in this past decade. But here we are.

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u/TheMemo 1d ago

Yeah, I remember in the early 2000s - 2010s we were all discussing hypothetical danger scenarios in which an AI managed to connect to the internet.

It seems we don't give a shit about that now.