Mark Boonshoft on HBO’s Westworld and the Realities of Living History

"The statement about artificial intelligence seems to be that the ability to access memories—history—blurs the line between machines and humans. At the risk of sounding philosophical, this is a useful truism for us as historians. Put differently, the difference between me and the squirrel outside my window is history. Maybe there’s more to it; I’m a historian, not a squirrel expert."
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​https://earlyamericanists.com/2016/10/26/guest-post-hbos-westworld-and-the-realities-of-living-history/