Intelligent Machines as Racialized Other
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Our narratives about intelligent machines reprise the same modes in which humans have historically dealt with "other" groups of humans, especially during the era of colonialism. This book explores how examining the emotions underlying our narratives about intelligent machines provides insights into the human psyche.
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Min-Sun Kim (PhD Communication) is a Professor in the School of Communication and Information at the University of Hawai¿i at Manoa. With a body of work that includes over 120 scholarly articles and books, her research spans a wide range of topics contributing to better understanding and collaboration across cultural and technological divides.
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Preface - Acknowledgements - The Birth of Human Self and the Creation of Machinic Other - (Dis)continuity between Humans and Non- Humans - Machines as "Frightening Other": Fear - Machines as "Subhuman Other": Disdain - Machines as "Substitute Other": Indifference - Machines as "Sentient Other": Empathy - Machines as "Divine Other": Wonder- Awe - Machines as "Salvific Other": Death Anxiety - Colonialist Construction of Machinic Otherness - Machines as "Marginalized Other": Anthropocentrism - Machines as "Fetishized Other": Exoticism - Colonialist Ethics Toward Intelligent Machines - Rethinking Ethical Encounters with Intelligent Machines - Transcending Karmic Dilemma - Epilogue - Afterword - Index.
