After reviewing and comparing the multiple of stories the two that I choose were In the Forest of Memory by E. Lily Yu and The Pedestrian written by Ray Bradbury. What was interesting about these particular stories was the showcasing of a world where humans gave the ability to allow technology to reshape their current lives and futures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the story written by Yu, what was interesting was the assumption that technology balances out society. When in reality it just reinforces the ability that the rich have. The Holographic memorials preserve the lives of the wealthy, as the lives of the homeless are forgotten because of their social status. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where as the story written by Bradbury, has a similar concept in a different form though. He describes a society where they are accepting of letting go their independence for a screen. And because of that any act out of the so called “ordinary” such as taking a walk at night is meant to be seemed as abnormal. Which is also one of the consequences of letting a machine try to dictate the normality of what human behavior should be like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both stories enforces to think critically about the power people surrender to AI, when they let it dictate their lives. What they allow AI to become. Bradbury’s police car implicates a world without empathy and a certain way of living. As Yu’s explains that the socially visible and acceptable people are the only ones who deserve remembrance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
These fictional AIs resonate with my understanding of what AI is today by the portrayal of what they can ultimately create our world into. In today’s world technologies often try to alter the world not in a such positive way but in a more controlling way, and they try to signify that by saying things like “to make life easier” or “a better way for humans to live.” Though I believe it is to strip us of our ability to choose for ourselves and think critically. In both stories, it creates the question to what the world can come too when we hand over total control of our lives to a machinery of any kind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After reviewing and comparing the multiple of stories the two that I choose were In the Forest of Memory by E. Lily Yu and The Pedestrian written by Ray Bradbury. What was interesting about these particular stories was the showcasing of a world where humans gave the ability to allow technology to reshape their current […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-4511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments","tag-ai-fiction","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4519,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions\/4519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}