Introduction: Can’t Buy Me Love?: Market, Mass Production, and Investment in Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Intellect Skip to content
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Volume 13, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2042-1869
  • E-ISSN: 2042-1877

Abstract

“Can’t Buy Me Love?: Market, Mass Production, and Investment in Steven Spielberg’s ” examines the film’s (2001) money plot. In so doing, it reveals how companies profit off robots like David (Haley Joel Osment). It goes on to revisit Spielberg’s source material, Brian Aldiss’s “Supertoys Last All Summer Long” (1969), which offers direct criticism of how we turn to short-term fixes, all the while neglecting long-term problems. I argue that Henry downplays his wife Monica’s discontent both in creating and in relying on a succession of AI stand-ins—Teddy, David, and now a serving-man—and, indeed, the couple abdicates their responsibility toward each other.

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