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SUMMARY:Bot Players and Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI in Minecraft: Wor
 ker Bees\, War Machines\, and Virtual Girlfriends
LOCATION:Hale Science 455\, 1350 Pleasant Drive\, Boulder\, CO 80309
DESCRIPTION:AGSA is pleased to invite you to our Brown Bag Talk\, titled "
 Bot Players and Sociotechnical Imaginaries of AI in Minecraft: Worker Bee
 s\, War Machines\, and Virtual Girlfriends\," by our fellow graduate stud
 ent Lina Cahill. The talk will be held on Thursday\, November 5th\, from 
 3:15 to 4:45 PMin Hale 455. Food will be served on a first come\, first s
 erved basis. The presentation is open to all faculty\, staff\, and underg
 raduate and graduate students.\n\nAs a sandbox video game\, Minecraft all
 ows human players to step into virtual avatars and interact with a near-i
 nfinite 3-D landscape of LEGO-like blocks—but recently\, AI-driven virtua
 l robots\, referred to as “bot players” or “bots\,” have taken the Minecr
 aft multiverse by storm. On certain Minecraft servers\, human players hav
 e coordinated bots en masse to serve as worker bees and delivery drones t
 hat can automatically collect in-game resources\, carry parcels of precio
 us items across vast distances\, and construct monuments at record scale 
 and speed. Recent experiments have even demonstrated the potential of vir
 tual bots as war machines\, highlighting their hand-to-hand combat prowes
 s and alarming capacity for mass destruction of the gameworld.\n\nBeyond 
 servitude and weaponization\, human Minecraft players have also turned to
  bots for online companionship\, as evidenced by the current trend of ins
 erting one’s “waifu” (dream girlfriend) into the game as a co-player capa
 ble of voice chatting. On the one hand\, such cyborgian co-play would see
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