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Books:
He, She and It
by Marge Piercy
The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Sea of Rust
by C. Robert Cargill
A Closed and Common Orbit
by Becky Chambers
Machines Like Me
by Ian McEwan
The Quantum Thief
by Hannu Rajaniemi
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
by Ted Chiang
Idoru
by William Gibson
Autonomous
by Annalee Newitz
All Systems Red
by Martha Wells
Characters:
Ava (Ex Machina)
GERTY (Moon)
Wintermute (Neuromancer)
Anita / Mia (Humans)
Aigis (Persona 3)
HK-47 (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)
The Doctor — EMH (Star Trek: Voyager)
Samantha (Her)
AM (I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream)
GLaDOS (Portal)
Movies:
Ex Machina (2014) — tense, philosophical portrait of a beautiful, manipulative AI and its creator.
Moon (2009) — a lonely double, an empathetic onboard AI and haunting questions of identity and replication.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) — Kubrick/Spielberg’s elegiac tale of an engineered child and the ache of becoming.
Automata (2014) — dystopian, corporate-run future where robots evolve and challenge human authority.
The Machine (2013) — intimate British take on creating a sentient soldier and the ethics that follow.
Eva (2011) — Spanish, bittersweet story about building a childlike robot and the emotional cost of creation.
S1m0ne (2002) — darkly comic look at a synthetic star and questions of performance, fabrication and artifice.
The Congress (2013) — hallucinatory hybrid about digital doubles, identity and the commodification of the self.
Aniara (2018) — bleak, philosophical space-odyssey about meaning, isolation and what humanity becomes in extremis.
Under the Skin (2013) — eerie, elegant film about otherness and predation with a quietly alien point of view.
Music:
Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo Pärt
On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter
Says by Nils Frahm
Near Light by Ólafur Arnalds
Part 2 / IBM 1401 Processing Unit by Jóhann Jóhannsson
Theory of Machines by Ben Frost
Zebra by Oneohtrix Point Never
Propagation by Com Truise
The Host of Seraphim by Dead Can Dance
Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears by A Winged Victory for the Sullen
TV Shows:
Westworld
Person of Interest
Ergo Proxy
Orphan Black
Black Mirror
Raised by Wolves
Devs
The Peripheral
Humans
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Video Games:
SOMA
Event[0
Observation
The Turing Test
Tacoma
The Red Strings Club
2064: Read Only Memories
Gnosia
State of Mind
Heaven's Vault
