In this Hour long, in depth conversation on robots and artificial intelligence, we contextualize the ideas of robots and artificial intelligence within various narrative traditions that still effect the way public discourse is conducted on the topic. The nightmare of the scientist creating artificial life, as in Frankenstein is a clear concern for most. Looking into the religious and moral effects this may cause. We also discuss Rossum's Universal Robots as the origin of the word "robot," and how it sets the tone of robot invasion going forward. Notes: Mark Riedl's live-tweeted while watching all the Westworld episodes, and collected the tweets up here: https://storify.com/mark_riedl/i-livetweeted-the-first-episode-of-westworld Dr. Bates also wrote about how he thought reveries worked (with downloadable code experiments): https://medium.com/@mark_riedl/westworld-programming-ai-to-feel-pain-f26195c798ee#.yp45leb6b And here is the piece from the former head of DARPA, Arati Prabhakar: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/darpa-arati-prabhakar-humans-machines And finally, here is the piece about machines and pain: https://www.engadget.com/2016/05/26/german-scientists-are-training-robots-to-feel-pain/