A.I., Robots and Revolution

About this episode

Shauna and Olivia discuss the impact of artificial intelligence and robots on society and pop culture.

Shauna and Olivia are in the studio together live and in person, so naturally this episode revolves around artificial life forms. Robots and Artificial Intelligence are hot topics right now, as so-called AI actresses threaten to take over Hollywood, large language models steal our creative endeavors, and humans are demonstrably losing brain power because we need AI programs to compose simple emails for us. Looking back almost 100 years ago at Metropolis to the 1980s' Terminator-style killer robots through today's "good for her" sex-bot revenge movies, the Junkies look at the pop culture robots that want to help us, kill us, sleep with us, or all three. They discuss how well fictional movies have predicted our current reality, and discuss future worst-case scenarios and how we can come together to avoid them. You can watch the Pop Culture Junkie Podcast on YouTube! Click here: https://www.youtube.com/@popculturejunkiepod/videos We have affordable and rewarding Patreon tiers! Be the first to hear new and uncensored content, if you dare! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/popculturejunkiepodcast/posts Apple Podcast…

People in this episode

Hosts: Shauna, Olivia

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• robots
• pop culture
• Hollywood
• future scenarios

Keywords

• AI
• robots
• Hollywood
• pop culture
• future scenarios

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Metropolis, Terminator

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