Man’s best friends:
Dogs and evolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp2Wp6UI5lA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDmzzREXI_g
Dog eyebrows
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/science/dogs-eyebrows-evolution.html
Reciprocal evolutionary changes from mankind's oldest friendship
Domesticated foxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dwjS_eI-lQ
Physiological changes brought about by domestication
"Wonder Dogs", NY Times video
https://www.nytimes.com/video/magazine/100000001327520/wonder-dogs.html
The empathic relationship between care dogs and their owners
Spanish horsemanship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YXusV8q1cI
Jared Diamond explores the almost telepathic communication between horse and rider
Emotional attachment to robots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq6XgrYBugo
Can the bond that humans have with dogs and horses be replicated with robots?
Automata:
The Silver Swan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOGBP-5SxiI
John Joseph Merlin's magnificant mechanical swan
Museum of Automata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzOgsaXO7BE
Making Marvels @ the Met
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/making-marvels-science-splendor/art-in-motion
Exhibits of exquisite 19th century automata
"Metropolis"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcReykfvqi4
Fritz Lang's dystopian silent film masterpiece
The Day the Earth Stood Still
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iF5sINVns
The 1950's classic sci-fi film featuring Klatu the robot
Ex machina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQuVnKhxaM
A modern Frankenstein story about love and robots
Sophia robot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Ox6H64yu8
The first robot citizen of Saudi Arabia
Boston Dynamics dancing robots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw
Atlas and Big Dog boogie down
SONY Aibo robot funeral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85737zfBWXw
A Buddhist funeral for a toy robot pet
Russian Federation robot with guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTPIED6jUdU
An actual terminator
Slaughterbots
https://autonomousweapons.org
Killer robot ban
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/08/ai-experts-join-elon-musk-stephen-hawking-call-for-killer-robot-ban.html
Autonomous weapons are changing battlefields around the world
"Hawking, Musk, Wozniak Warn About Artificial Intelligence's Trigger Finger", By Eric Mack, Forbes, 7/28/2015
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2015/07/27/hawking-musk-wozniak-freaked-about-artificial-intelligence-getting-a-trigger-finger/
AI:
Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings & IBM's Watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvSBzKbecmo
Welcoming our new AI overloards
"Create Your Own New Yorker Cover with AI"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2023-11-20
Generative AI meets cultural icon
"Imagine" - Generative AI tranforms world leaders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHMNPjkd5-0
"Race Against the Machine", Andrew McAfee TED Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfMGyCk3XTw
"Will automation take away all our jobs?", David Autor TED Talk, 9/2016
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_autor_will_automation_take_away_all_our_jobs
The impact of automation on the labor market
"A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans", By Bern Shneiderman, NY Times, 5/21/2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/technology/ben-shneiderman-automation-humans.html
Intelligence Augmentation vs. Artificial Intelligence
"How Algorithms shape our world", Kevin Slavin TED Talk, 7/2011
https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world
The impact of AI on terraforming the planet
"How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution", Kevin Kelly TED Talk, 6/2016
https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_how_ai_can_bring_on_a_second_industrial_revolution
The implications of making devices smarter and smarter
"Elite Dating Apps Spark Romance and Fuel Wealth Inequality", Bloomberg Markets, 4/2018
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-04-17/elite-dating-apps-spark-romance-and-fuel-wealth-inequality-video
The impact of dating algorithms on courtship
Geoffrey Hinton on the existential risks of AI
https://globalnews.ca/video/10811145/nobel-prize-winner-geoffrey-hinton-warns-of-dangers-of-ai
"The Last 6 Decades of AI — and What Comes Next", Ray Kurzweil, TED Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEztHu4NHrs