Isaac Asimov doesn’t PERFECTLY predict today’s era of anxiety and excitement around AI. But he does pretty well for somebody writing eighty years ago. In this 1990 collection of Asimov’s classic robot stories, we see corporations trying to make money while navigating human anxiety around robots, and humans trying to determine whether robots should have human rights, and whether it’s OK to be friends with a robot. 

Bagg was busy for this one, so we’re joined by friend of the show Justin Reich, host of the Teachlab podcast, and a frequent collaborator of Dukes. 

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