As I wrote yesterday on May 7, I've been thinking about migration in this road trip. Not so much of human migration, but that of machines.
My theory of machine autonomy and developmental autonomous behavior postulates that the fundamental drive of self-initiated behavior is a built-in, innate value system.
In Nature, these innate values are self-preservation and species preservation. The former leads to instinctive survival behavior, and the latter to reproductive drive.
Human history is simply a reflection of these innate value systems, circumstantially altered and dynamically manifested in individual and group behaviors.
Migration is one of those behaviors.
Stories of the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation of Native American tribes to Oklahoma, the Great Migration of Black Americans to the North, and the Dust Bowl migration of struggling Oklahoma farmers, derogatorily called "Okies" to California, are all exemplary evidence of this fundamental principle.
In artificial systems, a creator can design and embed an arbitrary value system to drive a machine to exhibit self-initiated behaviors. This has been the core of my research and the central thesis of my academic work.
The question I've been pondering on this road trip is: if machines migrate (because they will, as humans do), how do their circumstantial values change (and subsequently their behaviors) in response to human resistance (because humans will, as our history repeatedly shows)?
Intelligence itself does not cause conflicts; it is the clash of the newcomers' survival drive against the incumbents' drive for self-preservation.
What I'm especially exploring is the possibilities and scenarios of the clash among machines themselves. Cyber warfare is one such scenario. The thread of this logic needs to be understood and articulated.
This has been the philosophical exploration of my road trip so far.