Ex Machina (2015): Watching Ex Machina, I noticed how much Ava felt like a real person to me –sexy, sad and lonely –even though I knew she was a robot. Caleb felt this way too. He was seduced and conned by Ava into believing they were in a ‘relationship’. He devised a plan that would allow them to escape together –even though he knew just as well as I did that ‘she’ was not human. (I was even kinda’ hoping for a romantic ending (!?)) I believe the film shows how willing we are to enter into a para-social relationship with entities we know are simulations. Something like this has been shown to occur with characters in a book or a movie (Barnes 2015). Makes me wonder how we’ll treat characters we encounter in a virtual reality.
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