A Dream of Electric Mothers

2 ideas

1. Memories of the dead merged into an advisor

   The cabinet's advisor is built from the digitised memories of the dead, but merged into a new intelligence that works on present-day data rather than simply replaying the past. Its standing draws on continuity with those who came before, and the ending suggests it may be steering deliberately rather than only offering advice.

2. AI as continuation of indigenous institutions

   This lens treats artificial intelligence as an extension of existing cultural practices, here Yoruba traditions of honouring and consulting the ancestors, rather than as a foreign rupture. Seen this way, AI governance questions become questions about how a society already relates to its dead, to elders and to inherited authority.

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