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  1. A still from the film of a human mask on a glass wall in front of which Ava the robot stands looking into the camera
    June 8, 2021

    Ex Machina film screening and Q&A, Dr. Murray Shanahan

    Register to receive Zoom link Join UBC Language Sciences and Designing for People for this screening of the film 'Ex Machina', followed by a Q&A with Dr. Murray Shanahan. Ex Machina (2015): A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic…

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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