Some say, AI will make our lives easier. Some say, it's the beginning of the end of humanity.
The crew of the mothership decided to embrace the enemy. Join us in our exploration of AI generated content.
March has arrived, bringing the Ides and strife. A nudge here, a push there, this is the time to bring out the passions hibernating in the lair of flair. Nothing is impossible, even the road is rough ahead; there's so much of the struggle that's left unsaid. TheAI's (read as there's) so much to be, this is the journey that makes us what we have to be.
This month's article is as you've already understood, we present AI is this month's sub-genre.
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Science-fiction has become a reference point in the discourse on the ethics and risks surrounding artificial intelligence (AI). Science fictional AI is considered part of a larger corpus of 'AI narratives' that are analyzed as shaping the fears and hopes of the technology. To make this sub-genre work, AI is often portrayed as human-like or autonomous, regardless of the actual technological limitations. Taking science-fictional AI in the literal sense, and even applying it paints a distorted image of the technology's current potential and distracts from the real-world implications and risks of AI. These risks are not about humanoid robots or conscious machines, but about the scoring, nudging, discrimination, exploitation, and surveillance of humans by AI technologies through dependent and independent various sources. On the other hand, AI is a trope as part of a genre-specific mega text that is better understood as a dramatic means and metaphor to reflect on the human condition and socio-political issues beyond technology.
There are two ways to look at science-fictional AI--it can be viewed as being a substantial part of a larger corpus of the sub-genre scifi AI. The term AI applies featuring intelligent machines so that they can be analyzed as a reflection of our hopes and fears towards these technologies and thus may shape the development of AI by influencing our perceptions towards the sub-genre in general. In this sense, AI are understood as a serious representation of the potential of real AI and its possible consequences—like foresight or technology assessment. However, AI is not only about the hopes and fears of the particular technology, but about human dramas for a human audience and readership. From this perspective, it is not that AI per se that inspires dramatic stories, but—quite the other way round—the desire to tell dramatic stories requires certain types of AI, for example humanoid robots or almighty systems. Thus, second, science-fictional AI is not necessarily about the technology but can be a metaphor for other social issues.
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