Welcome to the Machine: Artificial Intelligence on Screen

AI has been a topic of fascination for film and television since the earliest appearances of robots on our screens, bringing with them questions about ethics, sentience and the long-term fate of humanity. These themes, as Rebekah Brammer details, can tell us a great deal about our fears and desires regarding technology, and the ways in which it might manifest in the future – for good or ill.

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Screens in the Classroom, middle years, senior secondary, Isaac Asimov, science fiction, sexuality, consciousness, Ex Machina, Real Humans, Humans, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Westworld, I, Robot, Her, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Black Mirror