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  • Privacy
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  • Human Control of Technology
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  • 11 min
  • Kinolab
  • 1990
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The Offspring: Robotic Reproduction and Rights to a Parental Role

Commander Data, an android, uses his technological skills to acquire knowledge to create a new android, his daughter Lal, in his own image without human help or oversight. He then guides Lal through the process of incorporating into the human world through means such as allowing her to choose her own gender and appearance, teaching her about laughter, and warning about human perception of difference. Ultimately, when he is asked to turn his daughter over to Star Fleet, he refuses on the grounds that it is his obligation as Lal’s parent to help her mature and acclimate to society, and captain Picard agrees that Lal is no one’s property but rather Data’s own child.

  • Kinolab
  • 1990
  • 3 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2016
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Robot Consciousness

Westworld, a western-themed amusement park, is populated by realistic robotic creatures known as “hosts” that are designed in a lab and constantly updated to seem as real and organic as possible. Bernard, a humanoid robot who previously believed himself to be a regular human, questions his maker, Ford, on what makes him different from humans, to which Ford replies that the line is very thin and arbitrary.

  • Kinolab
  • 2016
  • 10 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2020
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Virtual Afterlives and Adaptation

After dying in a car crash, computer programmer Nathan’s consciousness is uploaded into the  Lakeview program, one of many digital afterlives in which resurrected consciousnesses are guided through the virtual reality by a living “angel” figure. After Nathan struggles to adapt to his new reality, his angel figure, Nora, appears in the virtual reality to convince him to stay. However, Nora is having struggles of her own in convincing her father to accept the virtual afterlife in place of a supposed real heaven. For a similar premise, see the narrative “Afterlives and Liberation in Digital Utopias” on the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror. 

  • Kinolab
  • 2020
  • 3 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2020
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Self-Driving Vehicles and Drone Traffic Stops

Nathan, a computer programmer, lives in an imagined version of 2033 in which all cars are equipped with a vocal assistant and an autonomous drive program. When he takes control of his own car and drives recklessly, he is pulled over by a police drone. Eventually, he meets his demise when the autonomous drive in his car fails to recognize a parked truck in the middle of the road.

  • Kinolab
  • 2020
  • 9 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2010
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Facebook Origins and Control Over Photos

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history… but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

  • Kinolab
  • 2010
  • 3 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2019
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Digitally Reproducing Humans and “Possession”

In an imagined future of London, citizens all across the globe are connected to the Feed, a device and network accessed constantly through a brain-computer interface. In this narrative, Tom and Ben find out that their father Lawrence, the creator of the Feed, harvested the Feeds from dead people and used the data stored therein to upload their consciousnesses, including memories and emotions, into a cloud. After seeing the “training data” of Lawrence creating digital consciousnesses on this program, an AI was able to make many more digital consciousnesses of non-real people. These consciousnesses are then able to “possess” human bodies through being uploaded to the Feed devices implanted in real people’s brains.

  • Kinolab
  • 2019
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