4.3 Sarah Misemer on bawdy Renaissance literature, free will and AI

Today we talking with Sarah M. Misemer, a professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M. She has a new article out in South Central Review’s "Worlds In Crisis" special issue, which is called “What a Bawd from the Renaissance Can Teach Us about AI: Celestina, Robots, and Free Will," Dr. Misemer's article takes a look back at a piece of bawdy Spanish Renaissance literature, La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, and considers what it has to say about human free will in the age of AI robots.