Imagining AI
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Oxford: Oxford University Press (2023), xvii, 423 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-0-19-286536-6 (print); 978-0-19-195581-5 (ebook)
"Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines is the first volume showcasing research into how different cultures around the globe envision life with artificial intelligence. 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." (Publisher description)
INTRODUCTION
1 How the World Sees Intelligent Machines: Introduction / Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal, 3
2 The Meanings of AI: A Cross-Cultural Comparison / Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, Tomasz Hollanek, Hirofumi Katsuno, Yang Liu, Apolline Taillandier, and Daniel White, 16
PART I: EUROPE
3 AI Narratives and the French Touch / Madeleine Chalmers, 39
4 The Android as a New Political Subject: The Italian Cyberpunk Comic Ranxerox / Eleonora Lima, 55
5 German Science Fiction Literature Exploring AI: Expectations, Hopes, and Fears / Hans Esselborn, 73
6 The Gnostic Machine: Artificial Intelligence in Stanislaw Lem’s Summa Technologiae / Bogna Konior, 89
7 Boys from a Suitcase: AI Concepts in USSR Science Fiction: The Evil Robot and the Funny Robot / Anton Pervushin, 109
8 The Russian Imaginary of Robots, Cyborgs, and Intelligent Machines: A Hundred-Year History / Anzhelika Solovyeva and Nik Hynek, 126
PART II: THE AMERICAS AND PACIFIC
9 Fiery the Angels Fell: How America Imagines AI / Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal, 149
10 Afrofuturismo and the Aesthetics of Resistance to Algorithmic Racism in Brazil / Edward King, 168
11 Artificial Intelligence in the Art of Latin America / Raúl Cruz, 185
12 Imaginaries of Technology and Subjectivity: Representations of AI in Contemporary Chilean Science Fiction / Macarena Areco, 192
13 Imagining Indigenous AI / Jason Edward Lewis, 210
14 Maoli Intelligence: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Futurity / Noelani Arista, 218
PART III: AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, AND SOUTH ASIA
15 From Tafa to Robu: AI in the Fiction of Satyajit Ray / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, 237
16 Algorithmic Colonization of Africa / Abeba Birhane, 247
17 Artificial Intelligence Elsewhere: The Case of the Ogbanje / Rachel Adams, 261
18 AI Oasis? Imagining Intelligent Machines in the Middle East and North Africa / Kanta Dihal, Tomasz Hollanek, Nagla Rizk, Nadine Weheba, and Stephen Cave, 275
PART IV: EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
19 Engineering Robots With Heart in Japan: The Politics of Cultural Difference in Artificial Emotional Intelligence / Hirofumi Katsuno and Daniel White, 295
20 Development and Developmentalism of Artificial Intelligence: Decoding South Korean Policy Discourse on Artificial Intelligence / So Young Kim, 318
21 How Chinese Philosophy Impacts AI Narratives and Imagined AI Futures / Bing Song, 338
22 Attitudes of Pre-Qin Thinkers towards Machinery and their Influence on Technological Development in China / Zhang Baichun and Tian Miao, 353
23 Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Science Fiction: From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods to the Era of Deng Xiaoping / Yan Wu, 361
24 Algorithm of the Soul: Narratives of AI in Recent Chinese Science Fiction / Feng Zhang, 373
25 Intelligent Infrastructure, Humans as Resources, and Coevolutionary Futures: AI Narratives in Singapore / CherylJulia Lee and Graham Matthews, 382
1 How the World Sees Intelligent Machines: Introduction / Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal, 3
2 The Meanings of AI: A Cross-Cultural Comparison / Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, Tomasz Hollanek, Hirofumi Katsuno, Yang Liu, Apolline Taillandier, and Daniel White, 16
PART I: EUROPE
3 AI Narratives and the French Touch / Madeleine Chalmers, 39
4 The Android as a New Political Subject: The Italian Cyberpunk Comic Ranxerox / Eleonora Lima, 55
5 German Science Fiction Literature Exploring AI: Expectations, Hopes, and Fears / Hans Esselborn, 73
6 The Gnostic Machine: Artificial Intelligence in Stanislaw Lem’s Summa Technologiae / Bogna Konior, 89
7 Boys from a Suitcase: AI Concepts in USSR Science Fiction: The Evil Robot and the Funny Robot / Anton Pervushin, 109
8 The Russian Imaginary of Robots, Cyborgs, and Intelligent Machines: A Hundred-Year History / Anzhelika Solovyeva and Nik Hynek, 126
PART II: THE AMERICAS AND PACIFIC
9 Fiery the Angels Fell: How America Imagines AI / Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal, 149
10 Afrofuturismo and the Aesthetics of Resistance to Algorithmic Racism in Brazil / Edward King, 168
11 Artificial Intelligence in the Art of Latin America / Raúl Cruz, 185
12 Imaginaries of Technology and Subjectivity: Representations of AI in Contemporary Chilean Science Fiction / Macarena Areco, 192
13 Imagining Indigenous AI / Jason Edward Lewis, 210
14 Maoli Intelligence: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Futurity / Noelani Arista, 218
PART III: AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, AND SOUTH ASIA
15 From Tafa to Robu: AI in the Fiction of Satyajit Ray / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, 237
16 Algorithmic Colonization of Africa / Abeba Birhane, 247
17 Artificial Intelligence Elsewhere: The Case of the Ogbanje / Rachel Adams, 261
18 AI Oasis? Imagining Intelligent Machines in the Middle East and North Africa / Kanta Dihal, Tomasz Hollanek, Nagla Rizk, Nadine Weheba, and Stephen Cave, 275
PART IV: EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
19 Engineering Robots With Heart in Japan: The Politics of Cultural Difference in Artificial Emotional Intelligence / Hirofumi Katsuno and Daniel White, 295
20 Development and Developmentalism of Artificial Intelligence: Decoding South Korean Policy Discourse on Artificial Intelligence / So Young Kim, 318
21 How Chinese Philosophy Impacts AI Narratives and Imagined AI Futures / Bing Song, 338
22 Attitudes of Pre-Qin Thinkers towards Machinery and their Influence on Technological Development in China / Zhang Baichun and Tian Miao, 353
23 Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Science Fiction: From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods to the Era of Deng Xiaoping / Yan Wu, 361
24 Algorithm of the Soul: Narratives of AI in Recent Chinese Science Fiction / Feng Zhang, 373
25 Intelligent Infrastructure, Humans as Resources, and Coevolutionary Futures: AI Narratives in Singapore / CherylJulia Lee and Graham Matthews, 382
