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ai and society nextbook
About
  • ℹ️Introduction
  • 📖Definitions of AI
    • 🦣AI myths
    • 📃Critique of AI concept
    • 🔌AI as general purpose technology
    • 🤖Anthropomorphism
    • ⚙️Automation bias
  • 📚The historical entanglements of AI and semiotics
  • 🌏Technology and society
    • 🤖The history of AI
    • 🛕Ancient automata
    • 📚Public understanding of science and technology
    • 🪖Technology and the military
  • 🗃️Contemporary AI: Case studies
    • 🎥Case study: Superheroes, cyborgs, and artificial creatures in science fiction narratives
    • 💻Case study: problems with generative technologies
    • 🧲Case study: generative AI and copyright
    • 🤖Case study: mistaking CGI for miltech
    • 🙋Case study: renegotiating the social contract
  • 🌐Computer systems as social and semiotic technologies
  • 📝Exercises
    • 🗣️Headline rephrasing
    • 🤖Anthropomorphism awareness
  • 📑References
  • 🪶About this project
    • New Media and Technosemiotics modules@UPOL
    • HUGOD project
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  1. Contemporary AI: Case studies

Case study: Superheroes, cyborgs, and artificial creatures in science fiction narratives

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In contemporary science fiction, robots are often depicted as perfect humans. The spectrum of artificial, non-human or half-human creatures in fiction is wide and their construction as the ‘human mirror’. We will also inquire into the role of fiction in relation to reality, how it criticizes contemporary society and how sci-fi imagery is used by technologists in discourse.

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