• 
• 6 min
• n/a
• 2018

Through a series of interactions on a chat and a truth-or-dare type game, the user guesses if they are chatting with a bot or human.

• Deep Fake
• Limitations of Digital Technologies
• Machine Learning
• Robots

• 
• 20 min
• UC Research Repository
• 2018

This 2018 study uses several experiments to demonstrate how human racial bias is imposed upon robots as well, specifically in that racialised black robots are more likely to be perceived as threatening to the group sampled.

• Fundamental Ethics
• Technology and Race
• Robots

• 
• 5 min
• Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press
• 1916

A brief excerpt on Pygmalion’s love for his “marble maiden,” which could be compared to the human creation of robots for companionship use.

• Artificial Companionship and Therapy
• Gender Bias
• Robots

• 
• 8 min
• Kinolab
• 1982

Main Control Program, an Artificial Intelligence presence, has self-developed beyond the imagination of its creators and sets its sights on hacking global governments, including the pentagon. It believes that with its growing intelligence, it can rule better than any human can, and forces the hand of Dillinger, a human, to help move its hacking beyond corporations. Meanwhile, a team of hackers attempt to break into the mainframe of this system. When the rebel hacker Flynn attempts to hack into the mainframe of the MCP, he is drawn into the digital world of the computer which is under the dominion of the MCP. Sark, one of the digital beings who serves the MCP, is tasked with killing Flynn.

• AI Emotions and Rights
• Singularity
• Governing Technologies
• Mixed Reality
• Robots

• 
• 14 min
• Kinolab
• 2014

Caleb, a programmer in a large company, is invited by his boss Nathan to test a robot named Ava. During one session of the Turing Test, Ava fearfully interrogates Caleb on what her fate will be if she is deemed not capable or human enough by the results of the test. Caleb struggles to deliver the honest answer, especially given that Ava displays attachment toward him, a sentiment which he returns. After Caleb discovers that Nathan wants to essentially kill Ava, he loops her in to his escape plan, offering her freedom and a chance to live a human life. Once Nathan is killed, Ava goes to his robotics repository and bestows a new physical, humanlike appearance upon herself. She then permanently traps Caleb, the only remaining person who knows she is an android, in Nathan’s compound before escaping to live a human life in the real world.

• AI Emotions and Rights
• Artificial Companionship and Therapy
• Robots

• 
• 12 min
• Kinolab
• 1968

See HAL Part I for further context. In this narrative, astronauts Dave and Frank begin to suspect that the AI which runs their ship, HAL, is malfunctioning and must be shut down. While they try to hide this conversation from HAL, he becomes aware of their plan anyway and attempts to protect himself so that the Discovery mission in space is not jeopardized. He does so by causing chaos on the ship, leveraging his connections to an internet of things to place the crew in danger. Eventually, Dave proceeds with his plan to shut HAL down, despite HAL’s protestations and desire to stay alive.

• AI Emotions and Rights
• Workplace Safety
• Internet of Things
• Robots