Techno-thrillers to unnerve you: Fictional scenarios involving AI could be eerily prescient

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Techno-thrillers to unnerve you: Fictional scenarios involving AI could be eerily prescient

Nat Dolan

Nat Dolan

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In TV thriller Dollhouse, a person’s identity is stored on a hard drive and they can be “contracted out” with a different identity for a Kitti Incedi on Unsplash]specific purpose [Image:

What it means to be human and whether humanity needs artificial assistants or ‘slave’ workers are two issues featured in this month’s streaming selection, as Nat Dolan writes

There’s an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (Netflix) called The Measure of a Man, where the crew of the Enterprise are required to defend th