What do robot fantasies reveal about our reality, and what do they hide? Sociologist and race scholar Ruha Benjamin weighs in: “Anytime we’re talking about robots in pop culture, it’s a way to channel our anxieties about human dehumanization.” In an age of rampant techno-optimism (and ever-growing techno-anxiety), AI is playing an ever-more central role in how we live, work, think, and play; in the conduct of government; in the futures we imagine for ourselves and our species. To learn more, PW Director of Publishing Joshua Jelly-Schapiro sat down with Benjamin and Kate Crawford—two leading voices on the social impact of AI.
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This project is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, bridging the two cultures of science and the arts.
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