Ensuring AI Obeys Americans September 04, 2023
“I’m Yul Brenner, and I’m dead now.” That was how comedian Bill Hicks only slightly misremembered the actor’s eerie, posthumous anti-smoking ad broadcast after his 1985 demise.In 1973, Brenner played a killer Android, not a human ghost, in sci-fi Mas...
Life After Westworld December 15, 2022
Dystopia is a crowded field in today’s television. As early twenty-first century reality catches up to the cyberpunk of the 1980s, streaming and cable television takes to bridging between the Way We Live Now (Mr. Robot) and the world inevitably to fo...