AI Narratives

Stephen CaveDr Stephen Cave is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Philosophy, and Fellow of Hughes Hall, all at the University of Cambridge. After earning a PhD in philosophy from Cambridge, he joined the British Foreign Office, where he spent ten years as a policy advisor and diplomat, before returning to academia. His research interests currently focus on the nature, portrayal and governance of AI.Kanta DihalDr Kanta Dihal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. She is the Principal Investigator on the Global AI Narratives project, and the Project Development Lead on Decolonizing AI. In her research, she explores how fictional and nonfictional stories shape the development and public understanding of artificial intelligence. Kanta's work intersects the fields of science communication, literature and science, and science fiction. She is currently working on two monographs: Stories in Superposition, based on her DPhil thesis, and AI: A Mythology, with Stephen Cave.Sarah DillonProfessor Sarah Dillon is University Lecturer in Literature and Film in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. Her books include The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory (2007), Deconstruction, Feminism, Film (2018), and Listen: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning (2020, co-authored with Claire Craig). She is the General Editor of the series Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays, and editor of two volumes in the series: David Mitchell: Critical Essays (2011), and Maggie Gee: Critical Essays (2015, co-ed). Dr Dillon was a 2013 BBC Radio 3/Arts and Humanities Research Council New Generation Thinker and regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4.

A path-breaking book that surveys the important place of narrative in the long history of the interaction between humans and intelligent machines. All of the chapters are well researched, well argued, and informative, whether they recount a recent book by the author or present new research ... These virtues make AI Narratives a path-breaking book that surveys the important place of narrative in the long history of the interaction between humans and intelligent machines in Europe and the United States.

• PART I - ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY 1: Genevieve Liveley and Sam Thomas: Homer's Intelligent Machines: AI in Antiquity 2: E. R. 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