Archetype
The artificial being
The constructed person, whether robot, android, or replicant, whose status as a subject or a thing the story interrogates.
The artificial being in fiction: 6 works
The robots are the ur-artificial-beings whose status as tools or persons the play interrogates.
The Maschinenmensch robot, disguised as Maria, is an early cinematic artificial being.
Its robots test whether rule-bound machines can be moral agents.
R. Daneel Olivaw is a defining android whose personhood the narrative examines.
The androids are subjects whose right to exist the empathy test is meant to deny.
The concealed android Ash serves the corporation's interests over the crew's lives.