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Alan Ayckbourn's new play puts a robot on trial
Original: This week's net.wars, "What's in a name", goes to see Alan Ayckbourn's latest play, The Trial of Romeo Oscar, in which a
Playwright Alan Ayckbourn's latest work, The Trial of Romeo Oscar, centres on a robot tried for murder. Wendy Grossman's net.wars column, "What's in a name", reviews the production and explores its questions about naming, responsibility and artificial agents, framing the play within ongoing debates about robots and science fiction.
Why now: Interest in AI and robots' legal and moral responsibility is high, and a major playwright staging a robot murder trial speaks directly to that debate.
Alan AyckbournThe Trial of Romeo OscarWendy Grossman
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