Frame Work returns, with a new kind of episode. This week, Schwartz and myself are talking about Artificial Intelligence as it is portrayed in film and television. Starting by contrasting the subgenre of robot stories with its literary progenitors (Frankenstein, in this case), and going on to discuss robots as political allegory, the anthropomorphic filter we tend to pass them through in our fiction, and the most effective cautionary tales about their role in our future.
It’s a conversation that covers a lot of ground, and touches on the Alien series, Battlestar Galactica, The Terminator, Westworld, Age of Ultron, Blade Runner, The Matrix, 2001, AI Artificial Intelligence, Ex Machina, Her, Werner Herzog and probably a bit more besides.
As always, you can listen here, or download from the Podcast app, where you can access all our older episodes (including our lengthy Tarantino series, The QT Question).
