Commander Rick wants to discuss Robots, a subject near and dear to his heart, but NanCy, his Nano-Cybernetic 3000 computer, foils his plans and changes this week's topic to Artificial Intelligence. Rick's guests include Robocop 2 screenwriter Frank Miller, SF editor Judith Merril, SF critic Brian Fawcett, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy creator Douglas Adams, with SF authors Gregory Benford, Donald Kingsbury, Nancy Kress, Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens, Pamela Sargent, Robert Sawyer, Lewis Shiner, and George Zebrowski. With clips from Hardware and Robocop 2.