The Essay - What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?
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New Generation Thinker Simon Beard, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, looks at AI and what the writing of Douglas Adams tells us about questions of morality and who should be in control. This year is the 40th anniversary of BBC Radio 4's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
Published on Friday, 23rd March 2018.
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