Episode 9: Rampancy of the Artificial Mind Pt 1
“Bring yourself back online”
It is finally here! In this long-promised Westworld-inspired episode of Pod Culture [Oz], we are once again joined by our friend Fred (previously seen in Episode 2: Omega Point, sensates and space cannibals) as we discuss how artificial intelligence tropes are used in fiction.
We discuss the difference between machine learning and artificial intelligence, the gendered nature of AI work in fiction, and the implications of when AIs outgrow their programming and the ways in which they grow rampant.
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“When AIs begin acting beyond their designated boundaries, they either start firing missiles or they start asserting personhood.”
Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction
0:55 – Rampancy of the Artificial Mind
11:48 – How AI is used in fiction
40:07 – When AI goes rampant
1:00:33 – Wrap up and outro
Books we discuss
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Agamben, Georgio. Opus Dei: An Archeology of Duty
Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica
Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition
Asimov, Isaac. ‘Runabout’
Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game
Capek, Karel. R.U.R
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Flanagan, Frances. Climate change and the new work order
Flanagan, Frances. A consensus for care
Herbert, Frank. Dune
Hochschild, Ali. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
Gerald, David. When HARLIE was One
Gibson, William. Neuromancer
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
Simmons, Dan. Hyperion
Wells, Martha. All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries 1
Movies & TV shows we discuss
Battlestar Galactica (new series)
Ghost in the Shell (anime)
Westworld (movie)
Westworld (tv show)
