PEL Presents PMP#144: Androids and Us
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Do movie robots want to love us, be us, or kill us? Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al talk through various ethical and narrative problems having to do with the creation of artificial life.
We all watched M3GAN and Steve Spielberg's A.I., and also touch on After Yang, Ex Machina, Bicentennial Man, the BBC show Humans, and of course this is an element in classic sci-fi properties like Alien, Blade Runner, Star Trek, etc.
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| 0:00.0 | This is pretty much pop, a culture podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | Now with at least one secret robot host, can you guess which of us it is? |
| 0:14.8 | Today's topic is Androids and other robot buddies in film. |
| 0:17.5 | Do they want to be us, love us, kill us, or just be left in peace? |
| 0:21.4 | Among other things we all made a point at watching the new film, Megan, M3GAN, and the old |
| 0:26.3 | Spielberg film AI, artificial intelligence. |
| 0:29.2 | My name is Mark Linton-Mire, and I just want a realistic robot sex slave. |
| 0:33.3 | Is that so wrong? |
| 0:34.8 | Wow. |
| 0:35.9 | My name is Albaika, constantly filing the churring test. |
| 0:39.3 | My name is Seryl and Brooke, and man, I wish I treated Teddy Rexpin better. |
| 0:44.9 | My name is Lawrence Weir, coming from Oklahoma, and I recently watched Blade Runner, and I had nothing |
| 0:50.7 | deeper to say. |
| 0:51.7 | Well, this was Ace. |
| 0:52.9 | We're all like, yeah, this was supposed to just be Pinocchio Part 2 that you guys said, |
| 0:56.4 | oh, we want to watch AI for the Pinocchio episode. |
| 0:59.5 | And I started watching that like, this is not that relevant. |
| 1:02.4 | They referenced Pinocchio. |
| 1:03.8 | They clearly didn't read the whole unabridged story. |
| 1:07.4 | They clearly- |
| 1:08.4 | No. |
| 1:09.4 | Otherwise, the little robot child would not be so inspired to go on his quest if they |
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