Ep 5: Are You Afraid of Killer Robots‪?‬ Science Fact or Fiction?

This week we take a look at how Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shaped our current world. We explore what it means to be human through the lens of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and discuss the potential dangers of future AI technology.

Join Manon and Lance as they ask pressing questions: If your vacuum cleaner didn’t want to clean the house would you still make it? And what was going on in the 80’s? Why was the 21st century predicted to be extremely moody and bleak with a forecast of killing some robots and never ending drizzle?

Intro Music by Woody Rolph.

References and extra readings:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20191111-are-we-living-in-a-blade-runner-world

Harry Potter AI fanfiction

https://aiweirdness.com/post/162668008357/harry-potter-and-the-neural-network-fan-fiction

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1802/1802.07228.pdf

Machine learning and AI

https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/differences-between-ai-and-machine-learning-and-why-it-matters-1255b182fc6

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/if-the-robots-kill-us-its-because-its-their-job/360924/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/robots-human-relationships/583204/

Books:

Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence, by Jacob Turner

The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age, by Roger Bootle

An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines, by Kathleen Richardson