Electric Sheep

Meet Mary. She’s sentient and she’s conscious, just like us. The difference? She’s an Artificial Intelligence. Britt and Ellie want to know what the future holds for AI, and so they follow Mary through her dramatic tale. At every twist and turn, they ask if she needs humankind to protect her. If Mary mirrors human qualities, should she also have human rights? Britt and Ellie also investigate the embodiment of robots and why we feel compelled to produce them in human form. They meet those fighting to give “human” rights to chimpanzees… Pop on your headphones for the full experience and join the conversation using . Click

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Electric Sheep is an episode from Tomorrow’s World by BBC.

This episode is 61:19 long.

This episode was published on Nov 9, 2017.

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