Stephen Cave (Editor)
Kanta Sarasvati Monique Dihal (Editor)
Sarah Dillon (Editor)
Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2020
Language: English
Physical Details: 448
This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed, deployed and regulated. It is therefore a crucial social and ethical issue. Part I of this book provides a historical overview from ancient Greece to the start of modernity. These chapters explore the revealing pre-history of key concerns of contemporary AI discourse, from the nature of mind and creativity to issues of power and rights, from the tension between fascination and ambivalence to investigations into artificial voices and technophobia. Part II focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first-centuries in which a greater density of narratives emerge alongside rapid developments in AI technology. These chapters reveal not only how AI narratives have consistently been entangled with the emergence of real robotics and AI, but also howthey offer a rich source of insight into how we might live with these revolutionary machines. Through their close textual engagements, these chapters explore the relationship between imaginative narratives and contemporary debates about AI's social, ethical and philosophical consequences, including questions of dehumanization, automation, anthropomorphisation, cybernetics, cyberpunk, immortality, slavery, and governance. The contributions, from leading humanities and social science scholars, show that narratives about AI offer a crucial epistemic site for exploring contemporary debates about these powerful new technologies.
...MoreReview Ronald R. Kline (2023) Review of "AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines". Technology and Culture (pp. 223-225).
Review Sam Schirvar (2022) Review of "AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 167-169).
Chapter Gabriel Recchia (2020) The Fall and Rise of AI: Investigating AI Narratives with Computational Methods. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 382-408).
Chapter Olivia Belton; Kate Devlin (2020) The Measure of a Woman: Fembots, Fact and Fiction Get. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 357-381).
Chapter Michael Dillon; Sarah Dillon (2020) Artificial Intelligence and the Sovereign-Governance Game. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 333-356).
Chapter McFarlane, Anna (2020) AI and Cyberpunk Networks. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 284-308).
Chapter Beth Singler (2020) Artificial Intelligence and the Parent–Child Narrative. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 260-283).
Chapter Graham Matthews (2020) ‘A Push-Button Type of Thinking’: Automation, Cybernetics, and AI in Midcentury British Literature. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 237-259).
Chapter Slocombe, Will (2021) Machine Visions: Artificial Intelligence, Society, and Control. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 1213-236).
Chapter Kanta Dihal (2020) Enslaved Minds: Artificial Intelligence, Slavery, and Revolt. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 189-212).
Chapter Paul March-Russell (2020) Machines Like Us? Modernism and the Question of the Robot. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 165-186).
Chapter Ward, Megan (2020) Victorian Fictions of Computational Creativity. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 144-164).
Chapter Park, Julie (2020) Making the Automaton Speak: Hearing Artificial Voices in the Eighteenth Century. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 119-143).
Chapter LaGrandeur, Kevin (2020) Artificial Slaves in the Renaissance and the Dangers of Independent Innovation. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 95-118).
Chapter Ben Halliburton; Kang, Minsoo (2020) The Android of Albertus Magnus: A Legend of Artificial Being. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 72-94).
Chapter Truitt, E. R. (2020) Demons and Devices: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence before AI. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 49-71).
Chapter Sam Thomas; Genevieve Liveley (2020) Homer’s Intelligent Machines: AI in Antiquity. In: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines (pp. 25-48).
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