Cylons
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Sep 14, 2026
Adam GreenHOST
There's a subset of people who are like, oh, it's the West Wing in space.
Adam GreenHOST
But everyone else, when you say it... 80% of the people still think of the Cylons from the 80s and all the robes and shit.
Adam GreenHOST
Don't try to play.
Adam GreenHOST
Don't pull out your geek card right now.
Randall JamesHOST
so
Ash EliHOST
she might be shorter but her design looks rad also the protagonist is voiced by the woman who played the main blonde Cylon character in Battlestar Galactica
Randall JamesHOST
Oh, neat.
Randall JamesHOST
Cool.
NickHOST
Like, the Manhunters were a, a r- a robot spe- a robot species that were created to destroy, you know, to, to-
BillHOST
So they're like Cylons
NickHOST
... basically enforce evil, and then they turn evil.
NickHOST
Yeah.
JeralynAUDIENCE
It could either become incredibly dangerous, just like everyone is predicting.
JeralynAUDIENCE
It could l- maybe we will be able to teach it to learn to, to teach it to th- actually think, and then we'll be living in the I, Robot future where the Cylons are gonna take over and we all have to bow to our robot overlords and/or think of a way to outthink it just like, uh, you know, Hal in...
JeralynAUDIENCE
A- and I'm quoting all of these sci-fi movies and books because as Shelley said, poets are the legis- the unacknowledged legislatures of, legislators of the world.
JeralynAUDIENCE
I think science fiction writers are pointing us in the right direction.
James ShawHOST
But it maybe looks less human.
James ShawHOST
um, than the Terminator, but it looks, um, you know, it looks more nimble maybe than the original Cylons in that way, more wiry.
James ShawHOST
Um, maybe throw in a little bit of like the, uh, the bounty hunter droid from, from Star Wars as well, from, uh, Empire Strikes Back and from the Mandalorian, sort of the spindly, there's sort of the spindliness of it.
James ShawHOST
Um, it's not as quite as humanly looking, but it does look formidable.
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His Eminence, the Imperious Leader, will be with us shortly.
Richie AllenHOST
Yeah, the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica.
Richie AllenHOST
I don't think there was a human or an alien body inside the uniform.
Richie AllenHOST
The Cylons were robots, weren't they? Uh, this one you mightn't have got.
Richie AllenHOST
I know some of you will tell lies and say you did get it.
Richie AllenHOST
Uh, this one you might not have got.
Robin GadsbyHOST
... and her messaging?
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Cylon impregnation.
Katee SackhoffHOST
Whose voice is that? Is that Kate Vernon?
Robin GadsbyHOST
I don't know.
Edward James OlmosSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Eyewitnesses claim to have seen one of the-
Robin GadsbyHOST
Yeah
Edward James OlmosSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
... known Cylon models moving in and out of Galactica's brig.
Robin GadsbyHOST
I thought the fleet knew that they had a Cylon prisoner.
Jack BensingerHOST
Somebody's...
Eric RahillHOST
The human race invents an artificial slave race called the Cylons.
Eric RahillHOST
Are you listening? No,
Jack BensingerHOST
we're not listening, man.
Jack BensingerHOST
You don't want to hear about the Cylons.
Eric RahillHOST
These Cylons break free.
Eric RahillHOST
Okay.
Eric RahillHOST
After a long war, and then they're not heard from for 40 years.
Robby SoaveHOST
I can certainly imagine a case where an adverse – nefarious actor – I mean probably a hostile government uses an AI to cause us harm or to launch nuclear weapons or something.
Robby SoaveHOST
But the idea of the superintelligence doing it itself because it's programming, it's seeking self-improvement eventually causes it to have – to view humans as – to be eradicated the way that Skynet or the robots in the Matrix or the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, like that's just, I don't see why, if you built it to do it that way, then it would, but that it would go beyond your control and do it.
Robby SoaveHOST
But they're all saying that's the
Christian BritschgiHOST
fear.
JeralynAUDIENCE
It could either become incredibly dangerous, just like everyone is predicting.
JeralynAUDIENCE
It could l- maybe we will be able to teach it to learn to, to teach it to th- actually think, and then we'll be living in the I, Robot future where the Cylons are gonna take over and we all have to bow to our robot overlords and/or think of a way to outthink it just like, uh, you know, Hal in...
JeralynAUDIENCE
And, and I'm quoting all of these sci-fi movies and books because [laughs] as Shelley said, "Poets are the legis- the unacknowledged legislatures of, legislators of the world." I think science fiction writers are pointing us in the right direction.
JeralynAUDIENCE
Um, there was already an Isaac Asimov, Asimov story called The Gods Themselves, the premise of which was that we live in a not too distant future where all of our energy needs are, um, are taken care of by siphoning it from a different, from a parallel universe, and this allowed us to live in perfect luxury because l- that energy w- in his economy was the stopping point, right?
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