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The relationship between human and artificial intelligence is a tantalizing but formidable investigative topic requiring much more intellige...

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Lest the dystopian subtype of science fiction be taken too literally as a predictor of how human civilization will be likely to turn out, th...

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The fear about AI typically hinges on whether such machines might someday no longer be in our control. The prospect of such a loss of contro...

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In the film,  Wall-E   (2008), a robot “falls in love” with another, whose anthropomorphic pronoun is she/her rather than it as is fitting f...

The documentary, Eternal You (2024), is one film that zeros in on the use of AI to contact loved ones who have died. As the marketing depar...

By the 2020s, the Chinese government had made significant advances in applying computer technology to garden-variety surveillance. To do so,...

In June, 2024 at the international political meeting of the G7, a group of seven industrial nations, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, ...

In 1982, when Bladerunner was released, 2019 could only have been a blink of an eye in people’s thoughts. Even the year 2001, the year in wh...