Imagining AI

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction2 - The Meanings of AI: a Cross-cultural Comparison3 - AI Narratives and the French Touch4 - The Android as a New Political Subject: The Italian Cyberpunk Comic Ranxerox5 - German Science Fiction Literature exploring AI. Expectations, Hopes, and Fears6 - Automatic Gnosis: On Lem's Summa Technologiae7 - Boys from a Suitcase: The Evil Robot and the Funny Robot as the main AI Concepts in Science Fiction of the USSR8 - The Russian Imaginary of Robots, Cyborgs and Intelligent Machines: A Hundred-Year History9 - Fiery the Angels Fell: How Hollywood Imagines AI10 - Afrofuturismo and the Aesthetics of Resistance to Algorithmic Racism in Brazil11 - Artificial Intelligence in the Art of Latin America12 - Imaginaries of Technology and Subjectivity: Representations of AI in Recent Latin American Science Fiction13 - Imagining Indigenous AI14 - Maoli Intelligence: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Futurity15 - From Tafa to Robu: AI in the Fiction of Satyajit Ray16 - Algorithmic Colonization of Africa17 - Artificial Intelligence Elsewhere: The Case of the Ogbanje18 - AI Oasis? Imagining Intelligent Machines in the Middle East and North Africa19 - Engineering Robots with Heart in Japan: The Politics of Cultural Difference in Artificial Emotional Intelligence20 - Development and Developmentalism of Artificial Intelligence: Decoding South Korean Policy Discourse on Artificial Intelligence21 - How Chinese Philosophy Impacts AI Narratives and Imagined AI Futures22 - Attitudes of Thinkers in Pre-Qin Dynasty China to Mechanical Invention and Its Influence on the Development of Technology23 - Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Science Fiction: From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods to the Era of Deng Xiaoping24 - Algorithm of the Soul: Narratives of AI in Recent Chinese Science Fiction25 - Intelligent Infrastructure, Humans as Resources, and Coevolutionary Futures: AI Narratives in Singapore

AUTORE

Stephen Cave is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on philosophy and ethics of technology, particularly AI, robotics and life-extension. He is the author of Immortality (Crown, 2012), a New Scientist book of the year, and Should We Want To Live Forever (Routledge, 2023); and co-editor of AI Narratives (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Feminist AI (Oxford University Press, 2023). He writes widely about philosophy, technology and society, including for the Guardian and Atlantic. He also advises governments around the world, and has served as a British diplomat. Kanta Dihal is Lecturer in Science Communication at Imperial College London, where she is Course Director of the MSc in Science Communication, and Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on science narratives, particularly science fiction, and how they shape public perceptions and scientific development. She is co-editor of the books AI Narratives (2020) and Imagining AI (2023) and has advised international governmental organizations and NGOs. She has a DPhil from Oxford on the communication of quantum physics.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198959557
• Dimensioni: 215 x 20.0 x 138 mm Ø 589 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 14 b/w and colour images
• Pagine Arabe: 448