From Homer to Hal: 3,000 years of AI Narratives, Research Horizons (2018)
We have been writing about AI for almost as long as stories have been written. Fictions about robots, automatons and oracular brass heads have been with us long before Star Wars’ C-3PO and 2001’s killer computer HAL. Now, researchers want us to consider why the stories we tell ourselves about AI will have an impact on all our futures.