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Jun 2026
From Mechanical Monster to Moral Companion: The Cultural Politics of Emotions towards AI in "The Veldt” and "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"
The transformation of human emotions towards AI from fear to companionship is argued to be based on a broader cultural imagination of AI (Mechanical Genius), inseparable from changing emotional and social investment in human machine relationships.
Rafiq Nawab, Bibi Aimen, Sawaira Begum
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