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What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology

What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology

Update: 2025-01-11
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It’s the UConn Popcast, and Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s 2014 sci fi movie, is a provocative examination of what an updated Turing test for a super-capable AI might look like, if the designer of the test was a megalomaniacal tech-mogul / genius. The movie, starring Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, and Alicia Vikander, is a rich and often confounding text, which seems to posit a horrifying possibility: what if the real alignment problem is teaching AI the worst of humanity’s manipulative and instrumental traits?

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What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology

What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology

Marshall Poe

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