Westworld is marketed as a place where you can be anyone, do anything. It is a wild west themed amusement park that is populated by robots called “hosts”. You can help them, kill them, fornicate with them, or just watch them go about their day. Both the show and the park are so complex that we have dedicated three episodes to the technology.
AI & Consciousness
One of the most intriguing, albeit terrifying aspects of Westworld is how some of the host become self-aware. Like Skynet before them, these intelligent robots are focused on destroying humanity. Is it actually possible for AI to evolve into a real consciousness, and if so, are there safeguards we can put into place to avoid extinction? To answer this question we examine the three laws of robotics, the sex robot revolution, chaos theory, and of course D&D stats.
