Marco Ciappelli🎙️✨:verified: :donor:<p>Wishing a hashtag#HappyWeekend to all Humans… and non-humans.</p><p>It’s Newsletter Time! 🤓✨<br>“Robbie, From Fiction to Familiar — Robots, AI, and the Illusion of Consciousness”</p><p>I recently revisited Robbie, the first of Asimov’s iconic robot stories.</p><p>I first read it as a teenager in the ’80s, when robots lived in factories and AI belonged in science fiction. Back then, Robbie felt distant. The idea of forming an emotional bond with a machine? Pure imagination.</p><p>Today, that story feels… familiar.</p><p>We now live in a world where machines talk back. Generative AI writes, simulates empathy, pretends to understand us — and often, we play along. Meanwhile, Robbie never spoke, never faked understanding, yet somehow earned more trust than the machines we surround ourselves with today.</p><p>In my latest Musing on Society and Technology, I reflect on how different it feels to experience Asimov’s vision in the age of hashtag#GenAI, illusion, and the subtle performance of understanding.</p><p>The lines between fiction and reality? Between trust and simulation? They’re blurring fast — and maybe we’re not wise enough to notice it happening.</p><p>Go ahead, read this article — or simply listen to it, there’s a podcast version linked in the newsletter.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/robbie-from-fiction-familiar-robots-ai-illusion-marco-ciappelli-wwyac" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/pulse/robbie-from</span><span class="invisible">-fiction-familiar-robots-ai-illusion-marco-ciappelli-wwyac</span></a></p><p>Enjoy, share, subscribe… and stay human — or not. 🫢<br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SocietyAndTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocietyAndTechnology</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Asimov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Asimov</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HumanMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanMachine</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Trust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trust</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Storytelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Storytelling</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Future</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Infosec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sociology</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychology</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Newsletters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Newsletters</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Robotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Robotics</span></a></p>