COLT 10.29 Robots and AI in Fiction and Film

Can machines think and become aware of themselves as conscious beings? This question engendered a vast corpus of literary and cinematic works. The idea of Artificial Intelligence as an invasive force has deep roots in fictional and filmic stories about androids and robots, and seems to be coming true with the invention of Chat GPT. The implications of this kind of storytelling for our understanding of the human will be the focus of this course.

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Dist:INT or LIT; WCult:W

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Comparative Literature