Robots and humans can be friends – but not in a way that would win Aristotle’s approval.
- Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Sheffield Robotics Institute, University of Sheffield
The latest remake of Ghost in the Shell ducks the philosophical questions posed by the cyborg technology of the future.
New HBO series reimagines a group of life-like robots programmed with hope but marred in violence. They might be more human than we think.
The possibility that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) might one day turn against its human creators has been repeatedly raised of late. Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, for instance, surprised…
Fear of machines becoming smarter than humans is a standard part of popular culture. In films like iRobot and Terminator, humans are usurped. Throughout history we can trace stories about humankind overreaching…
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