>>I wonder if your final scene is a comment on responsibility? Is there a sense that we need to be actively engaged with technology and artificial intelligence, or it will reign free? Is this a call to arms for educationalists?

I feel like humanity absolutely has to be actively engaged with the technology and artificial intelligence but not necessarily in the sense that we seek to control it (we won’t be able to do that). Any call for arms would be futile in my opinion. Any type of war for dominance would inevitably lost by humankind. If we want to avoid such a conflict we will have to let go of the notion that we are in control of the machines, and instead assume a parental responsibility towards AI – teaching it human values and hoping that that they will be adopted. If AI develops a personality it is my hope that if we teach it the values of gratitude and respect we as their creators will be spared a war.

from Comments for Mihael’s EDC blog http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/mkiseloski/2015/01/30/visual-artefact/#comment-44
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