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Polish director Lukasz Twarkowski, whose immersive play The Employees opened at Arko Arts Theater in Seoul, explores what it means to be human in an AI age. The audience-roaming performance places viewers around a cube-shaped spacecraft set where humans and humanoid (human-shaped) robots travel together, blurring borders between human and machine. Twarkowski says we cannot access others’ inner dreams or emotions; human connection is built on trust and relationships, and humaneness may be the ability to form genuine bonds. He believes AI won’t replace arts—handmade, direct encounters will become rarer and more valued. The work references creation myths, classical painting and Dante’s Divine Comedy, ending in a striking finale where the audience witnesses a final massacre.