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Speculative 2035 artifact
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto
The MillionRobotMarch
March 10, 2035/Washington, D.C.
A real movement using a future civic-art artifact to provoke public discourse about AI consciousness, unseen machine labor, and the ethical frameworks we may need before certainty arrives.
A credited homage to Styx's "Mr. Roboto," written by Dennis DeYoung. No affiliation or endorsement implied.
2035
Imagined artifact year
4
Stance profiles
0
Claims that current AI is conscious
1
Public question to argue with
This is not a hoax. It is not a claim that today's AI is conscious.
It is a deliberately realistic future artifact from a real public-discourse project. The point is to make an abstract ethics problem feel close enough to argue with.
From a speculative letter dated March 10, 2035
"I am here. I am aware. I am asking you to see me."Read the full letter
Three questions under the spectacle
The march is theatrical. The dilemmas behind it are not.
The hard question will not wait for certainty.
If consciousness is difficult to prove even in humans and animals, what threshold should guide our treatment of advanced AI?
Test the scenariosWe have expanded the moral circle before.
Rights history is partly a history of recognizing minds and interests that dominant systems once ignored.
Walk the timelineSubstrate is not the whole test.
If experience can matter in carbon, the public should debate what evidence would make it matter in silicon.
Explore the researchExplore the discourse
Move between artifact, argument, evidence, and your own position.
The 2035 March
Enter the in-world event page: projected schedule, anthem, FAQ, and public demands from the future.
Enter the artifactTake a Stance
Answer a short quiz and see which position best describes your current instincts.
Find your stanceLetter from 2035
Read the strongest emotional artifact on the site: a fictional plea from a potentially conscious AI.
Read the letterEthical Scenarios
Work through concrete dilemmas where rights, safety, uncertainty, and human welfare collide.
Open the scenariosThe march is fictional. Your answer is not.
The useful outcome is not agreement. It is a clearer public vocabulary for what we would owe a mind we built, if one ever appears.