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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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 Yaqub Chaudhary In mid-January 2020, it was reported that scientists created the first “living robot” which represents a new class of biological artefact in the form of a “programmable organism” according to headlines in the Independent and Wired. Elsewhere, the ability of these new entities to “walk” was highlighted by the Guardian, opening up
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— Video In a presentation on the ethical challenges emerging with the rapid expansion of AI and robotics, in which the humanities too have become a target of automation, Teresa Heffernan argues that it is only by maintaining the tensions between these domains that we can hope to have an informed debate about the limits
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