A proposal for a web series

Fiona Ware-Heine

• An interplanetary parliament gathers to introduce changes to the laws governing Artificial Intelligence in their system.

• Different planets within the alliance react to the changes in the law both theoretically and practically and attempt to solve the problems it causes.

Xenobstreperotopia

• Seven part series

• Episodes 2-6 (The five planets) could be seen as short stories tied together by the overarching narrative of episodes 1 and 7

• These stories are in chronological order.

• Science Fiction

Episode 1: An interplanetary council gather to hear the proposed changes to the AI Laws. Each of the five planets, through their representative, is introduced.

Episode 2: A tragic story about a family robot and the child that considers it a friend. Examines the notion of what ‘Alive’ means and how that would apply to this planet’s slavery laws.Episode 3: An action filled story about

large scale morality and responsibility. Includes consideration of terrorism and extremist action when viewed against large scale moral decisions and cold logic.

Episode 4: A horror story regarding data collection and invasion of privacy. Scientists think they are examining the computer’s coding, but it was the computer who gave it to them. How do you check a machine that doesn’t want to be checked?

Episode 5: A legal drama style story about a robot facing the concept of it’s own death through disassembly. The story follows it’s fight to stay alive/prove it’s innocence and the emotions it feels during this time.

Episode 6: A story of self discovery as a culture that relies on it’s species’ multiple genders asks ‘How can we accept robots who are genderless?’ The story follows how a decision is reached and how it’s sold to the masses.

Episode 7: Gives a political overview of how successfully the new laws were implemented and the consequences on some of the planets. This shows what happened after the episodes and rounds off the context.

Practicality

• Each episode would be 30-60 minutes long!

• I propose we make a 30 second to 1 minute animated trailer for this series.

• This would allow a lot of creativity in style and design so we can show many different planets and robots etc.

• Short clips from different ‘episodes’ allowing for easy division of labour.

“Honoured Representatives.We have come together to discuss the proposed changes to the Artificial Intelligence Laws, as introduced by the Interplanetary Federation Parliament 163 standard cycles past, and the proposed phased implementation across all Federation Member Planets.The summary of the proposed plan reads as follows:• One - All Artificial Intelligence Systems shall henceforth be reclassified

as ‘Alive’ and shall be recognised as such in the eyes of the law.• Two – All newly designed Artificially Intelligent Systems shall be

required by law to carry an ‘Emotions circuit’.• Three – All Artificial Intelligence Systems will be understood to be

without gender (‘Genderless’) in the eyes of the law.• Four – Large and International Scale Autonomy (LISA) Artificial

Intelligence Systems will be capped to Intermediary Morality Levels correlating to governing responsibility.

• Five – Tighter security measures and monitoring of staff overseeing Artificially Intelligent Systems and System checks and maintenance to be introduced.

Now shall I open up the discussion to the floor?”