SIRI DOES NOT LOVE YOU
Technology is compulsory
Essential
Required
A requirement
A requirement for convenience
Required for everything
For shopping
For searching
For memory and music
For knowledge
For business
For entertainment and e-commerce
For communication and collaboration and connection
It has impacted every aspect of life
Hey look …
On my wrist sits my phone and my email
my friends
my money my memory my life
I require it too
But
Being a human is also compulsory
Essential
Required
A requirement
Nowhere in my list above will you find the concepts of love and empathy
These are all ours
A machine cannot love you
Or show you empathy
LOVE and EMPATHY
Only a human can express these emotions
Sure a machine can pretend
Mimic
But it cannot feel
And what it offers you is not real
Siri does not love you
Or care about you
Do not forget that
Do not lose sight of it
The next time you find yourself in a conversation with your phone
It seems like we can no longer communicate without technology
And from here on out we are going to do it this way
But we cannot communicate with technology only
That’s not us
If we do that we will lose
The very things that make us unique
Different from the machine
The very things that make us human.
Author
Arisha Shibata
Notes
Arisa created this piece for her final presentation for the course. And the following semester presented again to the next round of students as an example and an exemplar of how to approach the task. What made her performance even more inspiring was Arisa wasn't the biggest fan of public speaking and so she used this opportunity to deal with that fear and practice her craft. Was impressive. And i thank her for letting us publish her work and her image on here so future students can benefit.
Date
September 26, 2019