Barbara A. Sasso
Texts
Atsma, Aaron J, ed. “Theoi Texts Library.” 2017. https://www.theoi.com/Library.html. This useful website also has Ovid's Metamorphoses and Hesiod's Theogany and Works and Days, important sources of the Prometheus and Pandora myths.
Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 2008.
Asimov, Isaac. Robot Trilogy: Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn. Ballantine, 1987.
Bates, Harry, and Bob Gay. “Farewell to the Master.” The Library, May 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20140727101426/http://thenostalgialeague.com/olmag/bates-farewell-to-the-master.html.
Broadbent, Elizabeth. “Interactions With Robots: The Truths We Reveal About Ourselves.” Annual Review of Psychology, January 2017. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-psych-010416-043958Capek, Karel. “R.U.R Rossum's Universal Robots.” Project Guttenberg. Accessed June 28, 2019. http://preprints.readingroo.ms/RUR/rur.pdf.
Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? New York, NY: Del Rey, 2017.
Dick, Philip K. “Second Variety.” Project Guttenberg. Accessed June 28, 2019. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32032/32032-h/32032-h.htm.
Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not a Gadget: a Manifesto. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
McEwan, Ian. Machines like Me: and People like You. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2019.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost: The First Book. John Milton. 1909-14. Complete Poems. The Harvard Classics, 2015. https://www.bartleby.com/4/401.html.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. Edited by Maurice Hindle. London: Penguin Books, 2003.
Twenge, Jean M. IGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood (and What This Means for the Rest of Us). New York, NY: Atria Paperback, 2018.
Films
AI: Artificial Intelligence. DVD. Directed by Stephen Speilberg. United States: Amblin Entertainment, 2001.
Ex Machina. DVD. Directed by Alex Garland. United Kingdom: Universal Studios, 2015.
Frankenstein. DVD. Directed by James Whale. United States: Universal, 1931.
Blade Runner - The Final Cut. DVD. Directed by Ridley Scott. USA, 2007.
Her. DVD. Directed by Spike Jonze. United States: Anapurna Pictures, 2013.
Metropolis. DVD. Directed by Fritz Lang. Germany: UFA, 1927.
Robot and Frank. DVD. Directed by Jake Schreier. United States: Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2012.
Terminator. DVD. Directed by James Cameron. United States: Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1984.
Videos
Silva, Jason. “To Be Human Is To Be Transhuman.” YouTube. YouTube, March 25, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN57u7-x75w#t=122.
Boston Dynamics. “The New SpotMini.” YouTube. YouTube, November 13, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgaO45SyaO4.
Payne, Chris. “Do You Trust This Computer?” YouTube, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV_IZye14vs.
Green, Hank. “Nadine The Robot Is Amazing And Creepy.” YouTube. YouTube, January 9, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax2w7gZ8nd8.
Jain, Anab. “Why We Need to Imagine Different Futures.” TED. Accessed June 21, 2019. https://www.ted.com/talks/anab_jain_why_we_need_to_imagine_different_futures.
Levenson, Stephen. “Teaching Bert: ICub Robot Learns About the World.” Beckman Institute, May 28, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBImFrI6h7Q.
List, World 5. “Most ADVANCED Robots In The World!” YouTube. YouTube, March 6, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXGOBrkFIM.
“Machine Learning: Living in the Age of AI” Wired, June 20, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJixNvx9BAc.
Milk, Chris. “How Virtual Reality Can Create the Ultimate Empathy Machine.” TED, 2015. https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_milk_how_virtual_reality_can_create_the_ultimate_empathy_machine.
Project, The LifeNaut. “Bina 48 Meets Bina Rothblatt - Part Two.” YouTube. YouTube, November 27, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5IqcRILeCc.
“Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination” Space Time PBS Digital Studios. YouTube, September 14, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H55wybU3rI.
Articles and Essays
Bilton, Nick. “Ava of 'Ex Machina' Is Just Sci-Fi (for Now).” The New York Times. The New York Times, May 20, 2015. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/style/ava-of-ex-machina-is-just-sci-fi-for-now.html?_r=0.
Bromwich, Jonah Engel. “Why Do We Hurt Robots?” The New York Times. The New York Times, January 19, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/style/why-do-people-hurt-robots.html.
Eschrich, Joey. “Why 'Frankenstein' Is a Great Science Policy Guide for the Future | Essay.” Zócalo Public Square, October 2, 2017. https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/10/27/frankenstein-great-science-policy-guide-future/ideas/nexus/.
Friend, Tad. “How Frightened Should We Be of A.I.?” The New Yorker. The New Yorker, May 31, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/how-frightened-should-we-be-of-ai?reload=true.
Garrett, Henry James. “The Kernel of Human (or Rodent) Kindness.” The New York Times. The New York Times, December 29, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/opinion/empathy-research-morality-rats.html.
Hamstra, Brittany. “Will These Nurse Robots Take Your Job? Don't Freak Out Just Yet.” Nurse.org, February 27, 2018. https://nurse.org/articles/nurse-robots-friend-or-foe/.
Hardy, Quentin. “Looking for a Choice of Voices in A.I. Technology.” The New York Times. The New York Times, October 10, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/technology/looking-for-a-choice-of-voices-in-ai-technology.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share.
Hayasaki, Erika. “Better Living Through Crispr: Growing Human Organs in Pigs.” Wired. Conde Nast, March 22, 2019. https://www.wired.com/story/belmonte-crispr-human-animal-hybrid-organs/.
Hsu, Tiffany. “These Influencers Aren't Flesh and Blood, Yet Millions Follow Them.” The New York Times. The New York Times, June 17, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/business/media/miquela-virtual-influencer.html?searchResultPosition=2.
Hutson, Matthew, Ann Finkbeiner, Jeffrey Mervis, Jon Cohen, Kai Kupferschmidt, and Daniel Clery. “How Researchers Are Teaching AI to Learn like a Child.” Science, December 26, 2018. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/how-researchers-are-teaching-ai-learn-child.
Kinzler, Katherine. “How Kids Learn Prejudice.” The New York Times. The New York Times, October 21, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/opinion/sunday/how-kids-learn-prejudice.html?_r=0.
Lepore, Jill. “The Strange and Twisted Life of ‘Frankenstein.’” The New Yorker. The New Yorker, May 31, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-strange-and-twisted-life-of-frankenstein.
Manney, P.J. “Is Technology Destroying Empathy? (Op-Ed).” LiveScience. Purch, June 30, 2015. https://www.livescience.com/51392-will-tech-bring-humanity-together-or-tear-it-apart.html.
Metz, Cade. “Finally, a Machine That Can Finish Your Sentence.” The New York Times. The New York Times, November 18, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/18/technology/artificial-intelligence-language.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share. Human speech? Is the machine "thinking"?
Streep, Peg. “6 Things You Need to Know About Empathy.” Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, January 23, 2017. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-support/201701/6-things-you-need-know-about-empathy.
Taylor, Steve. “The Psychology of Racism.” Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, January 19, 2018. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/201801/the-psychology-racism.
Turing, A.M. “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” A. M. Turing (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 49: 433-460. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Accessed March 31, 2019. https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf.
Vinge, Vernor. “The Singularity.” Vernor Vinge on the Singularity, 1993. https://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html.
Weintraub, Karen. “Scientists Call for a Moratorium on Editing Inherited Genes.” Scientific American, March 13, 2019. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-call-for-a-moratorium-on-editing-inherited-genes/.
Williams, Alex. “Do You Take This Robot ...” The New York Times. The New York Times, January 19, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/style/sex-robots.html.
Winter, Damon, and Moises Velasquez-Manoff. “Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii.” The New York Times. The New York Times, June 28, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/opinion/sunday/racism-hawaii.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Yudkin, Daniel A., and Jay Van Bavel. “The Roots of Implicit Bias.” The New York Times. The New York Times, December 9, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/opinion/sunday/the-roots-of-implicit-bias.html?_r=0.
Zimmer, Carl. “One Day There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge the Brain. Who Should Get It?” The New York Times. The New York Times, April 2, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/health/klotho-brain-enhancement-dementia-alzheimers.html.