Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have turned to fiction to understand how societies imagine life with artificial intelligence. Surveying films, animation, literature, and games, they find that AI is rarely depicted as a mere machine. More often, it appears as a helper, a collaborator, or—occasionally—something closer to an equal partner. These shifting roles trace the evolution of imagined relationships between humans and intelligent sys…
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