How "Westworld" Ignites the Deep Thinkers Among Us

Westworld is an HBO television series based on American novelist Michael Crichton's 1973 futuristic science-fiction thriller about an android Western theme park. According to Variety, the first season of Westworld garnered an average of approximately 13.2 million viewers per episode. There are many reasons contributing to the show's popularity. On the surface level, the series is thrilling, complex, chilling, unpredictable, and completely unsettling – the very emblem of dystopian nightmares. On a deeper level, the show raises many philosophical questions on the potential impact of human-like robots powered by artificial intelligence (AI).