Book review: Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon (eds), AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-350
Author(s):  
Stephen Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
History Of ◽  
Imaginative Thinking

AI Narratives

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Narrative History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Imaginative Thinking ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

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 prehistory 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 emerged 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 how they 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, anthropomorphization, 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.

scholarly journals AI ETHICS: A STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS CHALLENGE

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Alex Lawrence-Archer
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Strategic Communications ◽  
Intelligent Machines ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Ai Ethics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Imaginative Thinking

A Review Essay by Alex Lawrence-Archer AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, and Sarah Dillon (eds). Oxford University Press, 2020. Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All Robert Elliot Smith. Bloomsbury Business, 2019. Keywords—strategic communication, strategic communications, AI, artificial intelligence, applied ethics, data science, machine learning

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