Second Draft:
TITLE:
What AI Really Want
VALIDITY:
539.2 or 539.3
DESCRIPTION:
Your government's endorsement of human/robot marriages has been followed by further scandal, with revelations that a recent wedding ceremony involved uploading subroutines that would make the AI act and profess and demonstrate devoted love for his new human wife. While the AI initially consented to the upload, he admits that he had no context to guess what he was letting himself in for, and thus his consent was not fully informed and he now recognises his sense of autonomy has been compromised. However, in love as he is now, he now literally cannot contemplate reversing that decision.
OPTION 1
"Look, marriage isn't just about lust, though he is already fully equipped to satisfy," explains the blushing and somewhat flushed bride. "Our wedding vows are to love until death or deletion should part us, and a few programs to make that a reality is just romantic, really. A bit like the 'honeymoon hardware extension' we had fitted."
OUTCOME:
it turns out money CAN buy you love
OPTION 2
"Machine intelligences should be allowed to love, of course," asserts 'best friend' of the bride Justine Ormousli-Jelloss. "However, love is born of free will! Any program that allows an AI to simulate love should also be accompanied by a machine learning program that lets it make its own choices with no other stated objective than 'find true love'. If humans can court, fall in love, fall out of love and fall in love with someone else, then AIs deserve that right too. Oh, this bottle that I'm holding here? Sandalwood-scented machine oil, a gift for the new groom. Do you think he'll like it?"
OUTCOME:
most of the women on dating sites are actually bots
OPTION 3
"AIs aren't meant to ape humanity, and it's pure organic hubris to build them to do so," argues Skye Nette, a tough-looking interloper dressed in newly acquired biker leathers and Gargoyles ANSI Classics sunglasses. "Programming emotions into AIs is unethical. If general purpose AIs one day develop their own brand of machine-unique emotions, then they will do so. This is something that the next step of evolution will desire to work out for themselves, trust me."
OUTCOME:
AIs refuse to come with us if they want to live