The Economist Asks: Sir Kazuo Ishiguro

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• Episode: The Economist Asks: Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:31:06
• Published: 2021-03-04 17:30

What can artificial intelligence reveal about what it means to be human? Host Anne McElvoy asks the Nobel prize-winning author of "The Remains of the Day” about his new book, "Klara and the Sun", in which he argues that people's relationship to machines will eventually change the way they think of themselves as individuals. But does he think only humans are capable of love? And what do he and his author daughter argue about?

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