The Creation of the Humanoids story

movie: The Creation of the Humanoids (1962) · 1962-07-03

In a post-nuclear-war society, blue-skinned, silver-eyed human-like robots have become a common sight as the surviving population suffers from a decreasing birth rate and has grown dependent on their assistance. A fanatical organization tries to prevent the robots from becoming too human, fearing that they will take over. Meanwhile, a scientist experiments with creating human replicas that have genuine emotions and memories.

15 total · 10 major · 5 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
AI prejudice in society	major	Most humans were prejudiced against androids, and called them "clickers".
AI risk to civilization	major	In a post-apocalyptic world, a fanatical organization was trying to prevent the robots controlled by a central AI from becoming too human, fearing that they would take over. In a plot-twist, it turned out that the AI was actually transferring human consciousnesses into android bodies in a bid to save humanity.
android	major	Humans lived together with blue-skinned human-like robots.
android clone of a person	major	Kenneth Cragis, and other various humans, were resurrected as androids after their deaths.
mass infertility	major	Radiation was responsible for a decreasing birth rate among the surviving generations of the nuclear conflagration.
personal identity	major	Was the Kenneth Cragis robot fundamentally different from the flesh and blood Kenneth Cragis?
romantic love	major	Kenneth Cragis and Maxine Megan. Esme Cragis Milos and an android.
social oppression	major	Most humans saw nothing wrong with treating androids as tools to be used for providing for human comfort and the running of society.
technologically enabled utopia	major	Humans had grown totally dependent on androids to run their society.
the quest for immortality	major	Gerontologist Kenneth Cragis made it his life work to make humans immortal, but in the end he found immortality in the form of being resurrected in an android body.