In this CTV News video interview, Bruce Frisko talks with Saint Mary’s University professor Teresa Heffernan, editor of Cyborg Futures: Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, on the effects of AI and robotics on our lives today, and the role of beliefs and fictional representations in driving the development of these technologies.
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— Online discussion of new edited book Join Dr. Teresa Heffernan this Thursday, November 19th (12 noon) for a lively online lunchtime discussion of Cyborg Futures: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Edited by Dr. Heffernan, Cyborg Futures brings together perspectives from fields as diverse as evolutionary biology, sociology, literary theory, and robotics to
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This talk by Teresa Heffernan considers the far reaches of the multi-billion-dollar immortality industry and the money and power behind the scenes that fuels this fantasy science even as the planet teeters on the brink of collapse. After examining some contemporary fictions that challenge big tech and its paradoxical escalation of the end of all
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By Ellen Nantau I was standing in an airport customs line when I realized that I wanted to be a physician. An announcement sounded overhead – an employee asking if anyone present was a doctor. My parents, both in medicine, shared a look. We were already at risk of missing our connecting flight and neither
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