Episode 8.18: What most frightens us about chatGPT? That one day androids with AGI will replace us?

Film and fiction have long anticipated a day when some of us come to prefer androids with AGI to human beings: as interlocutors; as companions; as friends; even as lovers. What is it about this idea that offends us so deeply? Why would we logically, rationally and emotionally prefer a bad or unpleasant human being to a kind and benevolent android? Illustrations from film and television including the Korean tv show “Are You Human?”