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Date: 2001-08-13 11:08:58

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AI is a movie that only some people are going to get. There have been a lot of people cutting it down, I believe these people need to read more hard science fiction to understand the concepts involved here.
    AI asks several moral and ethical questions. Can a person love a machine? Does a machine have the capacity to love? What obligations do we have to a Artificially Intelligent form of life? Is it morally right to create a "feeling" machine? What can we do if a machine were to in fact become self aware? Do these AI beings have rights? He asks these questions with a sense of responsibility and an awareness of where the human experience is heading. IMHO Spielburg was merely bringing to front these questions that have been asked in many of the sci-fi novels of the golden age that most people today have never experienced. Asimov's I-Robot, Heinlein's Time Enough for Love, Bradbury's 2001...the list goes on and on.

Much like human cloning, we have an obligation to preserve the humane treatment of ANY sentient being that has the capacity to feel and is self aware. These are the questions that Speilburg poses and if you didn't like it, well, you probably just don't get it. Go read a book for a change, maybe your narrow minded little world will open up for you some day.

With the help of the original author, the visionary teachings of Kubrick and the volumes of concepts from the sci-fi authors of old, Spielburg will beat you over the head and pierce your heart with your love for your machines. Your car, your computer, your TV. Do you not love your machines?