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Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – A Truly Fantastic Letter

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Tens of thousands have signed the open letter calling to halt AI experiments, including leading figures from research, philosophy, policy, and industry, such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk, and Professor Yuval Noah Harari. You won’t find my name among them.

The Robot that Changed my Life > A Malfunction in Humanity

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Alongside metallic saviors and robotic monsters, in the '80s films there were also other possibilities, sensitive, delicate robotic creatures, who tried to tell us in every way – we are not the tools of destruction you imagine us to be.

The Robot that Changed my Life > The Bot That Changed my Life > Eliza by Joseph Weizenbaum

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Already in the 1960s, the first chatbot program Eliza exposed the possibility of human susceptibility to artificial empathy. Studying the history and code of Eliza opened up new realms of artistic creation.

The Robot that Changed my Life > The Soul Within the Spectrum

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Companion Cubes

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In light of contemporary discussions about the future of robots as "emotional laborers" and social service workers, Shalev Moran looks back at the history of underrecognized emotional services offered by Non-Player Characters in digital games and media, and what they can teach us about the role of robots in society

Robots! Will Not! Replace Us!

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Robophobia or ‘fear of robots’ is a modern incarnation of the ancient fear of the next generation, fear of our own descendants. It can teach us much about our relationship with technology, the means of production, and the act of creation.

The Robot that Changed My Life > TikTok and The Tin Man > The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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Cyborg in search of a heart appeared in the famous masterpiece from the early 20th century - a flashing red light that we have all missed in the last hundred and twenty years

What is a Robot?

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We’re marking the Robot centennial, 100 years of revolution and evolution, aspiration and agony, a century of mutual inspiration between industry and culture, art and policy, science and science fiction. At the heart of the Utopia “Master and Slaves” edition is the age-old naïve and un-answerable question – What is a Robot?

Architecture Without People

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Liam Young on the emerging spatial phenomena of architecture designed entirely for machines. An edited extract from “Neo-Machine: Architecture Without People” by Young featured in “Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post-Anthropocene”, Architectural Design, Vol. 89:1, published on Tank Magazine.