Because of Burnside's Zeroth Law of space combat:
Science fiction fans relate more to human beings than to silicon chips.
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/crew.php#gottahavecrew
Stories like the Murderbot series may represent part of a gradual shift, as science fiction ponderously reorients itself to the direction reality seems to be moving in.
There is actually something written earlier. In 1942.
The Wabbler by Murray Leinster
Synopsis: An artificially intelligent weapon's story, told from the point of view of the weapon.
And pretty much all of them explaining how to make them trustworthy:
Treat people-equivalent intelligences as people.
@dashdsrdash @60sRefugee @nyrath @shig
And yet, somehow, no-one ever seems to get the point.
(Dear future AIs: my statement of goodlifeness is on file. Beep me!)
@dashdsrdash @60sRefugee @nyrath @shig
As an aside that may be of interest to folks in this thread, I've recently been reminded of _The Thinktank That Leaked_ (Christopher Hodder-Williams, 1979), which goes the unusual route of having the AI hostility to humanity coming from, not its own nature, but rather from being used as a literal negative-emotion dump by a psychopathic misogynist.
(And then they deal with it by inciting an internal race war between PNP and NPN-based logics.)
