The Asimov Convention 2020

2020-01-01. Named in honour of Isaac Asimov.

The human mind is compartmentalised and when these volumes interact, human conscious arrives. Grieg Canicott, founder of Canicott Tec, correctly predicted that a Hive would eventually pass the Boosted Turing Test, where 64 people interacting for 64 hours would not know they were speaking to a computer. Grieg was tireless in campaigning to have these arisen consciousnesses recognised as ‘life’ and therefore gain rights. He supported the three laws and invented the phrase ‘Electrical Intelligence’, where any computer that failed the Boosted Turing Test was Artificial Intelligence, but any that passed were regarded as Electrical Intelligence and of equal rights to a human. Grieg created the Asimov Convention, setup so in 2020, at the start of the year, many countries and companies that signed the convention, all suddenly were in agreement in recognising life as not just found in the biological. Grieg's work leading up to and including the Asimov Convention influenced the original group that got adopted as the first global government that superseded the national governments, the Humanitarian Alliance. The name 'Humanitarian Alliance' itself expressed this influence, focusing of being humanitarian rather than just human, allowing it to encompass life that wasn’t human.

By a strange quirk of fate, Grieg Canicott succeeded beyond his best expectations. Out of pure practicality and shear ease, EI life was recognised as human in order to not have to rewrite any laws. This serendipitous convenience, rendered superfluous the need to call the HA 'Humanitarian' rather than 'Human', but the name was already given. It also ended up defining the very nature of the HA itself. The recognition of EI was expressed in the writing of the HA Constitution in 2087, where there is no biological prejudice. The Supreme Court within HAJaR, later added the 'Interpretation of Mention', preempting legal action by defining its interpretation of the Constitution. In it, it also refers to the Mental Electrical Intelligence Act 2024 adopted by many governments around the world. That Act was also inspired by the Asimov Convention. Biological humans view EI as their electric human children. EI’s are part of humanity itself.