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Chapter 7
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DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0802-8.ch007
ABSTRACT
Artifcial intelligence has revolved around the ideological core of social sciences
as never before. Public opinion shows exegetes of AI and detractors who feared the
advance of robots and AI in human life. Although AI makes life for humans faster
and easier, no less true is that it reduces human autonomy, probably threatening
future jobs. Quite aside from this, this chapter interrogates the impacts of AI and
technology in science fction movies. The authors analyze the critical position of
diferent scholars regarding movies or Sagas such as The Terminator, Matrix, and
HBO Saga Westworld. From a sociological perspective, they approach the problem
of technology while placing it under the critical lens of scrutiny. In so doing,
seminal voices like Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Ellul are put in the
foreground. Plausibly discussing the advance of AI in daily life is interrogating the
future of digital society.
INTRODUCTION
It is not difficult to resist the impression that digital technologies have played
a leading role not only in capitalist expansion but also in the conformation of
digital society in recent years. Today technological breakthrough has created
AI and Robots in Science
Fiction Movies:
Why Should We Trust in AI?
Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5149-1669
University of Palermo, Argentina