The Good Place’s Janet Is the Most Optimistic AI on Television

Science fiction is where artificial intelligence goes to suffer. In nearly every robot-adjacent story, artificial lifeforms succeed in achieving sentience only to realize that they are abjectly, unendingly oppressed. That realization kicks off an array of terrible events: suicide, submission, or rebellion leading, most often, to death. But these dire possibilities are limited only by …

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