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PMP#144: Androids and Us

February 8, 2023 by Mark Leave a Comment

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Do movie robots want to love us, be us, or kill us? Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al talk through various ethical and narrative problems having to do with the creation of artificial life.

We all watched M3GAN and Steve Spielberg’s A.I., and also touch on After Yang, Ex Machina, Bicentennial Man, the BBC show Humans, and of course this is an element in classic sci-fi properties like Alien, Blade Runner, Star Trek, etc.

We also go on a tangent about A.I. writing academic papers.

We mention the short stories E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” and Roger Zelazny’s “For a Breath I Tarry.”

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This podcast is part of the Partially Examined Life podcast network and is curated by openculture.com.

Filed Under: Film, Science Fiction Tagged With: film podcast, M3GAN, pop culture podcast, sci-fi podcast

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