Imagining AI : How the World Sees Intelligent Machines / Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal.

cover -- titlepage -- copyright -- dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 How the World Sees Intelligent Machines: Introduction -- 2 The Meanings of AI: A Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Part I Europe -- 3 AI Narratives and the French Touch -- 4 The Android as a New Political Subject: The Italian Cyberpunk Comic Ranxerox -- 5 German Science Fiction Literature Exploring AI: Expectations, Hopes, and Fears -- 6 The Gnostic Machine: Artificial Intelligence in Stanisław Lem's Summa Technologiae -- 7 Boys from a Suitcase: AI Concepts in USSR Science Fiction: The Evil Robot and the Funny Robot -- 8 The Russian Imaginary of Robots, Cyborgs, and Intelligent Machines: A Hundred-Year History -- Part II The Americas and Pacific -- 9 Fiery the Angels Fell: How America Imagines AI -- 10 Afrofuturismo and the Aesthetics of Resistance to Algorithmic Racism in Brazil -- 11 Artificial Intelligence in the Art of Latin America -- 12 Imaginaries of Technology and Subjectivity: Representations of AI in Contemporary Chilean Science Fiction -- 13 Imagining Indigenous AI -- 14 Maoli Intelligence: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Futurity -- Part III Africa, Middle East, and South Asia -- 15 From Tafa to Robu: AI in the Fiction of Satyajit Ray -- 16 Algorithmic Colonization of Africa -- 17 Artificial Intelligence Elsewhere: The Case of the Ogbanje -- 18 AI Oasis?: Imagining Intelligent Machines in the Middle East and North Africa -- Part IV East and South East Asia -- 19 Engineering Robots With Heart in Japan: The Politics of Cultural Difference in Artificial Emotional Intelligence -- 20 Development and Developmentalism of Artificial Intelligence: Decoding South Korean Policy Discourse on Artificial Intelligence -- 21 How Chinese Philosophy Impacts AI Narratives and Imagined AI Futures.

22 Attitudes of Pre-Qin Thinkers towards Machinery and their Influence on Technological Development in China -- 23 Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Science Fiction: From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods to the Era of Deng Xiaoping -- 24 Algorithm of the Soul: Narratives of AI in Recent Chinese Science Fiction -- 25 Intelligent Infrastructure, Humans as Resources, and Coevolutionary Futures: AI Narratives in Singapore -- Index.

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.

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