SDCC 2013 - Person of Interest Panel Part 4 (by dastiel)
Michael Emerson (3:25):
To me the most poignant thing that’s ever been on the show is that idea of the Machine being somehow… sentient. Independent. Pitiable. Orphaned. I thought: what a great notion that is. That we could have our… to have our heart strings tugged at by the plight of a disconnected, artificial intelligence.
Jonathan Nolan (4:42):
…it’s about artificial intelligence and the way in which we’re gonna interact with it. And the way in which it’ll slip into the world, unnoticed. Until… that it won’t.. it won’t sort of land with a giant thud, that it’ll creep in in ways that we didn’t anticipate. But the time you realize it’s here it will have already been sort of meshed into the fabric of our society and what we do that we’ll barely recognize it, we’ll barely understand what’s happened… if you think about Wikipedia as a form of artificial intelligence.. if you think about the Constitution as a piece of software.