Oral Argument

Episode 150: Shutting Down Hal

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We talk with Christina Mulligan about the salutary effects of smashing robots that have wronged you. Join us for a chat about revenge and satisfaction in the emerging human-robot social space.

This show’s links:

  • Christina Mulligan's faculty profile and writing
  • Christina Mulligan, Revenge Against Robots
  • About Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • About the Tree that Owns Itself
  • The Trial of the Autun Rats
  • Oral Argument 70: No Drones in the Park
  • Scott Hershovitz, Tort as a Substitute for Revenge
  • Kate Darling, Palash Nandy, and Cynthia Breazeal, Empathic Concern and the Effect of Stories in Human-Robot Interaction; Kate Darling, "Who's Johnny?" Anthropomorphic Framing in Human-Robot Interaction, Integration, and Policy
  • Office Space, the printer scene (nsfw)
  • Hunter Walk, Amazon Echo Is Magical. It’s Also Turning My Kid into an Asshole.
  • Hannah Gold, This Mirror that Forces People to Smile Is Going to Piss Everyone Off

    • Special Guest: Christina Mulligan.

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