⬛ TEXTO — Itens (01 a 07)
In January 1818, Mary Shelley anonymously published a strange little novel that would eventually make her world-famous. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who is driven by an unrelenting “thirst for knowledge,” an ambition to penetrate the secrets of nature, heaven, and Earth. He works tirelessly to engineer a sentient being who, upon coming alive, is hideous to him. Realizing with horror that his plan has gone awry, Frankenstein flees his creature who in turn angrily chases him to the end of the Earth and finally destroys him at the novel’s end.
Shelley’s dystopian tale has managed to stay relevant since its publication. It has a riddling quality that has edified and entertained readers for centuries, inspiring a range of interpretations. Recently, it has been making appearances in the heated debates over generative artificial intelligence, where it often is evoked as a cautionary tale about the dangers of scientific overreach. Some worry that in pursuing technologies like AI, we are recklessly consigning our species to Victor Frankenstein’s tragic fate. Our wonderchildren, our miraculous machines, might ultimately destroy us. This fear is an expression of what science fiction writer Isaac Asimov once called the “Frankenstein complex.”
Strangely, it’s not only people who are afraid of robots who are expressing such fears today; it is also some of the people who are most aggressively at the forefront of technological innovation. Elon Musk seemed to have had Mary Shelley’s story in mind when he warned a World Government Summit in Dubai in 2017 that sometimes “a scientist will get so engrossed in their work that they don’t really realize the ramifications of what they’re doing.”
🔗 Texto adaptado de: Jennifer Banks. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can illuminate the debate over generative AI. In: Big Think. Internet: <bigthink.com>.
7. According to the text, Elon Musk is someone who is afraid of robots, even though he is one of the leaders of technological innovation.
Gabarito: ERRADO
🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada
O item exige atenção à estrutura contrastiva do parágrafo final, que distingue dois grupos de pessoas: aquelas que têm medo de robôs e aquelas que estão na vanguarda da inovação tecnológica.
📝 2️⃣ Análise técnica
O texto afirma que não são apenas as pessoas que têm medo de robôs que expressam tais receios; também alguns líderes da inovação tecnológica manifestam preocupações semelhantes.
Em nenhum momento o texto declara que Elon Musk é uma pessoa que tem medo de robôs. Ele é citado como exemplo de alguém na vanguarda tecnológica que expressa advertências, não como integrante do grupo definido como “people who are afraid of robots”.
🚩 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da UnB
A UnB explora a falsa equivalência: confundir o fato de alguém expressar preocupação com a ideia de pertencer ao grupo dos que têm medo de robôs.
🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ O texto distingue dois grupos, sem fundi-los.
✔ Musk é citado como inovador que adverte, não como alguém que “tem medo”.
✔ O item cria uma equivalência que o texto não autoriza.
🔎 Item ERRADO.