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It's easy to forget that the cyborg — AI's distant cousin — has existed in the human imagination for more than six decades. The prospect of partially human, partially mechatronic beings has captured artists and culture commentators alike, resulting in a number of seminal works since 1960, when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline first coined the term in an Astronautics paper. The list continues to expand as Donna Haraway's 1985 feminist essay "A Cyborg Manifesto" Spike Jonze's 2013 film Her, Japanese writer Chiaki J. Konaka's 1998 anime film Serial Experiments Lain. Miss Grit's debut album, Follow the Cyborg, was inspired by these and many other works about bionic people. Miss Grit, a British woman, tells MTV News, they were attracted to the automaton for its liberatory functions: it is often depicted as free from outside influences and aspirations.