Blending BioScience and AI – shall we?
My story in 2025 is not about that 25-year-old Y2K issue reasonably solved. It is about two men, legacies of Y2K who are focusing now with Artificial Intelligence. One is an AI consultant with business and government, including offering a white paper to the International Beijing Conference in 2024. The other, a Texas attorney, simply offering a comment on that work. Gnawing at me were the images of AI generated super-women of fantasy caricatures shape and beauty. Too many such images, enough to make one uncomfortable. That alone wasn’t enough to shape my subsequent conclusions. It was the comment of the Texas attorney when remarking on those images, who stated parenthetically: “My young self wishes that he had dated those A.I. females.”
So here we are today on the brink of designing and creating nothing short of Stepford Wives, made to order. Everyman’s dream of the perfect mate, agreeable, uncomplicated but for battery and software updates. So, let’s examine the reality, question the cold hard facts.
Robotic human facsimiles are at our threshold. Couple that with extra-biological genetic reproduction, again, made to order, and you have a planet where the human female gender is no longer necessary. Not only unnecessary, but a drag on the endeavors of the male paradigm. Men, free from the annoyances of a quarrelsome, complaining spouse; free to build a better world, and free to pursue adventure, exploration, and territorial expansion.
Impossible to imagine? Consider the tens upon tens of millions of women in countries ruled by conservative Sharia Law, enslaved and imprisoned. Those women, largely unrecognized other than from unheard women’s rights organizations (note: not “human” rights organizations), are used exclusively for labor and breading. We have the AI model living today in an effective controlled human existence. [I have to note here that enslavement alone, hideous as it is, coupled with isolation and imprisonment, is exponentially more terrifying. Even in America, slaves had community; large plantations including villages and churches. Some of the most hauntingly beautiful music was a product of enslaved communities in the fields.] Isolation coupled with imprisonment a chokingly horrible existence. Again, those currently enslaved and imprisoned humans used only for labor and breading. And we accept that.
Can we make a humane argument for excusing those tortured human souls and replacing them with AI robots in the form of previously commonly identified human females? It almost seems compassionate. Human embryos, carefully harvested and genetically altered for exacting reproduction, infinitely reproducible. Robotic “women,” for inexhaustible labor, breeding and gestation. A better world, indeed. You be the judge.
Do we think this is not being developed in a laboratory now? Are we not seeing before us the lesser of human motivations, greed, and power? I noted the first man, a Y2K 1990’s authority, now depicting way too many fantasy AI women, and the comment of the second man, who remarked parenthetically that he would have liked to date one as a youth, that startled me into this flight of possibility. I have posed a plausible argument to those holding power in our world that women are already considered replaceable.
Nancy P. James
Author of “Year 2000” The Inside Story of Y2K Panis and the Greatest Cooperative Effort Ever”
Prometheus Books, 2024