Between Man and Machine: Rethinking Identity in Martha Wells’ Artificial Condition and Fugitive Telemetry (Published)
This paper expatiates on the human-machine interaction in the AI era through the prism of Wells’ Artificial Condition and Fugitive Telemetry. It questions the human ability to cope with bots which assume such roles as human saviors and murder investigators. It is theoretically inscribed within the precincts of posthumanism, as these bots are posthumans with super-exceptional capacities. This study highlights that humans and their intelligence are at risk as they can be surpassed. Human intelligence is under erasure[1]. Also, the boundaries between the real and artificial are blurred and human identity is steeped in ambivalence in different artificial conditions that pose security-related issues among both scrupulous and rogue machines.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Identity, artificial conditions, replacement, subversion