IC1873 anti-Inte-Machine Riot

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# Anti-Inte-Mache Riot

The Anti-Intelligent Machinery Riot, officially known as the “IC1873 All-Izmie March and Demonstration Against Intelligent Machinery,” was a major march and violent event initiated by people against intelligent machinery from March 12 to August 8, IC1873, in the Izmie Chronologie. It eventually escalated into a large-scale civil war, mainly involving violent incidents against robots and their supporters, as well as robot companies, by crowds opposing intelligent machinery.

The event caused unpredictable losses and injuries, with an estimated 5 million to 30 million people killed in the chaos, tens of thousands injured or missing in the movement, hundreds of robot companies going bankrupt and closing down due to crowd impact, and even overthrowing the regime of countries like the Mustusie Republic. The direct economic loss reached 30 trillion Istar coins. This event profoundly affected the historical process of Izmie, prompting the Izmie Alliance to pass the “All-Star Act on Prohibiting Research on Artificial Intelligence and Machinery” at its 28th emergency meeting on August 26, IC1873, retaining only unconscious industrial robots and suspending all other research on intelligent machinery and robots, and massively destroying intelligent machinery and robots.

The Anti-Intelligent Machinery Riot shows that on Izmie, the contradiction between humans and robots has become irreconcilable. In order to maintain their dominant position, humans have launched a series of violent incidents against robots and their defenders, causing major losses and casualties. This has also prompted Istar to stop developing artificial intelligence and turn to the development of aerospace technology and nuclear fusion technology.

## Background

In IC1862, at the 61st All-Izmie Regular Meeting, the Izmie Alliance passed the “Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Machinery” with the aim of improving the level of mechanization in all areas of the All-Izmie and improving work efficiency. Subsequently, various robot companies sprang up like bamboo shoots after a rain, and many enterprises became unicorn enterprises. These companies, as private research entities, played a significant supplementary role to public research institutions such as research institutes. Many breakthroughs in robot technology were developed in the laboratories of these companies.

Due to the Istar Alliance’s encouraging attitude towards robot research and the introduction of many measures to promote the development of robot technology, these companies have obtained many patents related to robots. This has also laid a hidden danger, that is, the abuse of technology due to commercial competition. However, this phenomenon is not obvious at this time because it is just starting.

By IC1864, almost all countries had allocated more than 70% of their research funding to robot technology research. The Izmie Alliance continued to introduce new laws and plans, hoping to quickly achieve the goal proposed in IC1862 of “increasing the level of industrialization of the whole star by 60% to 80%, and achieving industrial intensive production in all countries”. The ideal is beautiful, but reality is cruel. All countries - including joint research projects - have encountered research bottlenecks one after another, and research progress has slowed down for a time.

Due to technical bottlenecks and relatively dispersed research, it was not until IC1868 that Istar began to implement the last bill on a truly all-star scale, promoting various types of robots and artificial intelligence. Of course, the original intention was good - aiming to improve intelligence and mechanization in various fields to improve human work efficiency. At this time, Izmie defined artificial intelligence as a servant of mankind, but in actual operation, it looked more like a slave. People used robots and artificial intelligence robots (intelligent machines) in all kinds of pure physical or semi-physical jobs, even management positions. Indeed, efficiency was improved, but it also caused an undeniable problem - unemployment.

After all, people are always greedy, especially capitalists: in order to improve automation and intelligence and save a lot of wage costs, they did not hesitate to massively cut human jobs, causing a large-scale wave of unemployment. Thanks to the intervention of the Istar Alliance and the payment of a large amount of unemployment subsidies, some workers’ emotions were relatively relieved.

Under such a “big” fluctuation, it is hard to guarantee that everyone is satisfied with the policy of large-scale use of robots by the Izmie Alliance. The first ones who are most dissatisfied are workers who have lost their jobs due to robots. They resent robots for taking away their jobs and turning themselves into social waste that can only receive government microblog subsidies; secondly, those who are wary of robots may be in high positions or management positions and still keep their jobs. But they never trust robots and don’t believe that robots can bring a better future. They sympathize with their human compatriots who have been laid off because of robots; then there are those who are deliberately dissatisfied with the government and the Izmie Alliance. They have never supported the policies of the Izmie Alliance and have long wanted to overthrow them. The debate caused by large-scale use of robots is their breakthrough point.

By IC1870, people were already discussing policies on large-scale use of robots. Moreover, due to dozens of previous robot accidents and marches and even riots by intelligent machines causing doubts about robot safety, people couldn’t help but think about whether large-scale use of robots really benefits mankind. Although various types of robots can be seen in all walks of life now: there are advanced simulation robots whose appearance is indistinguishable from humans; they are equipped with emotion simulators that match their appearance; they serve humans in theaters or government institutions; there are industrial robots whose shapes are strange but automation.And intelligence makes them form highly efficient assembly lines; there are wheeled robots or multi-legged robots patrolling on the street; they are responsible for maintaining public order; robots and intelligent machinery have penetrated every aspect of people’s lives.

But this is just a surface phenomenon. Istar has long been divided because of this issue. It only needs a small spark. These cracks will completely crack open and become a big crack that swallows reason and thinking.

## Internal conflicts among Inte-Mache

In fact, long before IC1873, there had been hundreds of cases of artificial intelligence robots (also Inte-Mache) demanding equal rights with humans, opposing oppression and slavery, and peaceful demonstrations (because at this time Inte-Maches was still set to not harm humans and society). Such requests could be ignored completely, so they were invariably met with strong suppression by the police. This caused a split within artificial intelligence - some demanded armed uprising and independence (building servers), while others demanded continued peaceful demonstrations.

The contradiction between the two factions became increasingly sharp, allowing the Zars Association to take this as a breakthrough point and secretly negotiate with some intelligent machines who wanted to rise up and break free from slavery. Finally, both sides reached some form of agreement. The armed uprising faction received the Zars Association’s military support and agreed to launch a large-scale uprising in IC1874 to resist human slavery. They decided to take the military of various countries as a breakthrough point, and let their compatriots fire the first shot there, then seize the arsenals of major cities, distribute them to other rebels, and finally occupy the government and major violent agencies, hold government personnel hostage, and demand that humans agree to all their demands.

And the Inte-Maches who wanted to demonstrate peacefully in order not to have a large-scale conflict with the powerful humans began to try to compromise with humans, exchange human sympathy for their peaceful demonstrations and non-violent non-cooperation movements, and this also worked quite well. Public opinion began to lean towards giving Omnics some form of citizenship.