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AI is now a global phenomenon. Yet Hollywood narratives dominate perceptions of AI in the English-speaking West and beyond, and much of the technology itself is shaped by a disproportionately white, male, US-based elite. However, different cultures have been imagining intelligent machines since long before we could build them, in visions that vary greatly across religious, philosophical, literary and cinematic traditions. This book aims to spotlight these alternative visions.
Imagining AI draws attention to the range and variety of visions of a future with intelligent machines and their potential significance for the research, regulation, and implementation of AI. The book is structured geographically, with each chapter presenting insights into how a specific region or culture imagines intelligent machines. The contributors, leading experts from academia and the arts, explore how the encounters between local narratives, digital technologies, and mainstream Western narratives create new imaginaries and insights in different contexts across the globe. The narratives they analyse range from ancient philosophy to contemporary science fiction, and visual art to policy discourse.
The book sheds new light on some of the most important themes in AI ethics, from the differences between Chinese and American visions of AI, to digital neo-colonialism. It is an essential work for anyone wishing to understand how different cultural contexts interplay with the most significant technology of our time.
Author(s): Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 441
City: Oxford
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dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
1 How the World Sees Intelligent Machines: Introduction
2 The Meanings of AI: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
Part I Europe
3 AI Narratives and the French Touch
4 The Android as a New Political Subject: The Italian Cyberpunk Comic Ranxerox
5 German Science Fiction Literature Exploring AI: Expectations, Hopes, and Fears
6 The Gnostic Machine: Artificial Intelligence in Stanisław Lem's Summa Technologiae
7 Boys from a Suitcase: AI Concepts in USSR Science Fiction: The Evil Robot and the Funny Robot
8 The Russian Imaginary of Robots, Cyborgs, and Intelligent Machines: A Hundred-Year History
Part II The Americas and Pacific
9 Fiery the Angels Fell: How America Imagines AI
10 Afrofuturismo and the Aesthetics of Resistance to Algorithmic Racism in Brazil
11 Artificial Intelligence in the Art of Latin America
12 Imaginaries of Technology and Subjectivity: Representations of AI in Contemporary Chilean Science Fiction
13 Imagining Indigenous AI
14 Maoli Intelligence: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Futurity
Part III Africa, Middle East, and South Asia
15 From Tafa to Robu: AI in the Fiction of Satyajit Ray
16 Algorithmic Colonization of Africa
17 Artificial Intelligence Elsewhere: The Case of the Ogbanje
18 AI Oasis?: Imagining Intelligent Machines in the Middle East and North Africa
Part IV East and South East Asia
19 Engineering Robots With Heart in Japan: The Politics of Cultural Difference in Artificial Emotional Intelligence
20 Development and Developmentalism of Artificial Intelligence: Decoding South Korean Policy Discourse on Artificial Intelligence
21 How Chinese Philosophy Impacts AI Narratives and Imagined AI Futures
22 Attitudes of Pre-Qin Thinkers towards Machinery and their Influence on Technological Development in China
23 Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Science Fiction: From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods to the Era of Deng Xiaoping
24 Algorithm of the Soul: Narratives of AI in Recent Chinese Science Fiction
25 Intelligent Infrastructure, Humans as Resources, and Coevolutionary Futures: AI Narratives in Singapore
Index
