AI Narratives

This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines, featuring contributions from leading humanities and social science scholars who detail the narratives about artificial intelligence (AI) that in turn offer a crucial epistemic site for exploring contemporary debates about these powerful technologies.

Introduction; Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon: Imagining AI; PART I - ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY; 1 Genevieve Liveley and Sam Thomas: Homer's Intelligent Machines: AI in Antiquity; 2 E.

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Truitt: Demons and Devices: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence before AI; 3 Minsoo Kang and Ben Halliburton: The Android of Albertus Magnus: A Legend of Artificial Being; 4 Kevin LaGrandeur: Artificial Slaves in the Renaissance and the Dangers of Independent Innovation; 5 Julie Park: Making the Machine Speak: Hearing Artificial Voices in the Eighteenth Century; 6 Megan Ward: Victorian Fictions of Computational Creativity; 7 Paul March-Russell: Machines Like Us?

Modernism and the Question of the Robot; PART II - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY; 8 Kanta Dihal: Enslaved Minds: Artificial Intelligence, Slavery, and Revolt; 9 Will Slocombe: Machine Visions: Artificial Intelligence, Society, and Control; 10 Graham Matthews: A push-button type of thinking: Automation, Cybernetics, and AI in Mid-century British Literature; 11 Beth Singler: Artificial Intelligence and the Parent/Child Narrative; 12 Anna McFarlane: AI and Cyberpunk Networks; 13 Stephen Cave: AI: Artificial Immortality and Narratives of Mind-Uploading; 14 Sarah Dillon and Michael Dillon: Artificial Intelligence and the Sovereign-Governance Game; 15 Kate Devlin and Olivia Belton: The Measure of a Woman: Fembots, Fact and Fiction; 16 Gabriel Recchia: The Fall and Rise of AI: Investigating AI Narratives with Computational Methods