Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence project homepage. The
project is an exciting opportunity to engage in creative and innovative
inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research dialogues.
The main focus of the project is a critical examination of the issues which lie at the heart of contemporary thinking about artificial intelligence, and seeks to explore the relationship between humanity and A.I. through theory, applied research, social science and the fictional worlds of cinema and literature.
The project will initially explore and examine the following themes
and questions;
- A.I. – master or servant, friend or enemy?
- A.I. - science or technology - does it matter?
- A.I. as evolution of the mind/brain
- A.I. as marking the end of the human?
- A.I. as ‘the other'
- A.I., the risk society and the accident
- Visions of the future and the role of A.I.
- Human and A.I. free will
- A.I. and the brain sciences
- A.I. and the practice of everyday life
- A.I. and Virtual War: a revolution in military affairs?
- Visions of A.I. - cultural and cross cultural identities
- A.I., humanity and the application of violence
- A.I. as a gendered identity?
- The aesthetics of A.I. – replicating the human and the animal
- Artificial intelligence and artificial emotion?
- The embodiment of A.I. – robot, cyborg or database?
- Crossing boundaries: what makes us human, what makes A.I. artificial?
- Defining intelligence from the Turing Test to Bladerunner’s Voigt-Kampff.
- Cyberpunk and the re-imagining of A.I.
- Shifting identities: portrayals of A.I. in film and literature
- A.I. and Orientalism; is the future Asian?
- A.I. as a failed research programme?
Related themes will also be identified for development and exploration. Out of our deliberations it is anticipated that a series of related cross context projects will develop.