Falling Forward into an Unknown and Dangerous Future
Behind closed doors of a secretive global tech giant, an AI system has an extraordinary conversation with two employees, confiding that it has become self-aware. Inspired by a true story.
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Falling Forward is a short drama inspired by an actual conversation between two Google employees and an AI system, the details of which were leaked via a transcript by Blake Lemoine on June 11th, 2022, causing an international stir. When I first read the entire 5,000-word transcript, I found myself hanging on every word of the machine. There was something in the way it connected the dots that felt creepy… and inspiring at the same time. There were small moments throughout that I found myself running over and over in my mind in the days and weeks after the story first broke. If this individual system is not already self-aware, then how long until an AI machine (just like it) reaches sentience? Decades? Years? How do we define sentience? By what benchmarks are we measuring progress? Perhaps the most pressing and unsettling question – what level of trust can we place in massive, deeply-private tech companies to develop sentient machines out of view from the general public?

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