Is AI Making Us Less Human?

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From police robots to AI avatars, the tech industry uses human empathy as a tool for evil.

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Filmed & edited by me :)
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Sources:
Tech fair robot scandal https://metro.co.uk/2017/09/27/men-at-tech-fair-molest-3000-sex-robot-so-much-its-left-broken-and-heavily-soiled-6960778/
Kamil Mamak, "Should Violence Against Robots be Banned?"
Kate Darling, "'Who's Johnny?': Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, and Policy"
Mads Bering Christiansen, Ahmad Rafsanjani, and Jonas Jørgensen, "“It Brings the Good Vibes”: Exploring Biomorphic Aesthetics in the Design of Soft Personal Robots"
Kate Darling, Palash Nandy, and Cynthia Breazeal, "Empathic concern and the effect of stories in human-robot interaction"
Dr. Cherie Lacey and Dr. Catherine Caudwell, "Cuteness as a Dark Pattern in Home Robots"
Adobe Podcast https://podcast.adobe.com/
Anat Perry, "AI will never convey the essence of human empathy"
Luisa Damiano, Paul Dumouchel, and Hagen Lehmann, "Artificial Empathy: An Interdisciplinary Investigation"
Adrienn Ujhelyi, Flora Almosdi, and Alexandra Fodor, "Would You Pass the Turing Test? Influencing Factors of the Turing Decision"
Jonas Ivarsson and Oskar Lindwall, "Suspicious Minds: the Problem of Trust and Conversational Agents"

HeyGen https://heygen.com
Affective computing market (U.S. only - unsure how large the global market is!) https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/affective-computing-market#
Ted Chiang, "Liking What You See: A Documentary" (from the short story collection "Stories of Your Life and Others")
Daniel Immerwahr, "What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-history-of-fake-things-on-the-internet-walter-j-scheirer-book-review"

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Media used:

The Iron Giant (1999)
Wall-E (2008)
Her (2013)
Blade Runner (1982)
Ex Machina (2014)
Air Doll (2009)

Links to all YouTube videos used here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hY71YfFq7Kc1N6cf_NvXlrifgoRxwMd9bTqp5dOHbrA/edit?usp=sharing