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Becca Caddy

Science fiction sold us “good” AI – now it’s shaping how we treat real AI

A profile of a human brain against a digital background.

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved science fiction. I was obsessed with time travel and space exploration, but robots always had my heart. One Christmas, I was given a huge (well, huge for me at the time) R2-D2 that beeped and booped as I dragged it around the house. I loved them all, from the clunky, boxy machines to the eerily human-like androids.

Now, as artificial intelligence weaves itself into our daily lives, I find myself thinking about those fictional depictions a lot.

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