49: Robots

Words To That Effect by HeadStuff Podcasts & Conor Reid

Jan 28, 202135:59Arts

Robots as high-tech labour-saving devices, and as usurpers of human jobs. Robots as distinctly Other and as dangerously indistinguishable from humans. Robots as a means of questioning what it is to be human, and highligh...

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