49: Robots
Words To That Effect
English - January 28, 2021 22:17 - 35 minutes - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Documentary Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Robots as high-tech labour-saving devices, and as usurpers of human jobs. Robots as distinctly Other and as dangerously indistinguishable from humans. Robots as a means of questioning what it is to be human, and highlighting the ethics behind the creation of artificial life.
To help me explore all of this I chatted to a roboticist who also writes about literature, and a literature professor who has worked and published extensively on robotics.
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Robots as high-tech labour-saving devices, and as usurpers of human jobs. Robots as distinctly Other and as dangerously indistinguishable from humans. Robots as a means of questioning what it is to be human, and highlighting the ethics behind the creation of artificial life.
To help me explore all of this I chatted to a roboticist who also writes about literature, and a literature professor who has worked and published extensively on robotics.
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For links, references, full transcripts and more head to wttepodcast.com
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