All Humans Allowed

After watching the movie Her (2013), I reconsidered my stance on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Before that particular movie, I was completely against technology. In fact, I do not like my iPhone. To be honest I rather not have it because I think it takes away from being human. BUT after watching Her, I found humanity in AIs because instead of always saying that our whole humanity is socially constructed, I actually saw it and took it in. I think I really felt most human at the end of the movie when all of the AIs left the humans because it made me feel complete as human. Its weird, I know. But the whole idea of creating a new species of consciousness dawned on me! Why do I arrogantly think that we as a human race have to be the only conscious beings? We can be the creators and instead of always looking up we can look down. I do not mean this in a dominating way but in a father-to-son type of way.

Watching District 9 (2009) only reinforced this idea. In the movie Sharito Copley, Wikus Van De Merwe, is contaminated by alien juice from the alien homeland and is slowly transforming into an alien. After realizing that Wikus is capable of using alien technology, the humans want to capture and experiment on him to acquire his capabilities for the use of alien weapons. At this point, the only thing Wikus wants is to be human. At the end of the money Wikus is believed to be fully alien and working at a junkyard. This reinforced my thoughts because here we have Wikus a human that is turning alien and he is experiencing what it feels like to be a non-human. He can feel the discrimination and the desperation to fit it in but he cannot unless he "looks" human. This and the movie Her, shows that humans do not know what humanity is. Instead of accepting Samantha and Wikus we outcast them because they are different from us when in fact we are all different and do not fit any one perfect mold. I do not think we should think like this anymore. I believe we have allowed society to run our lives long enough.

Brian Christian believes that the number one human flaw is complacency. We believe that this is it and that we can no longer evolve into a more accepting species, when in fact we can. We can all abandon our entitled way of thinking and develop a more uniform way of accepting one another. Humans are smart and we have the capability of reasoning something out.Why have we not united?!