Technology often grows from stories; our ideas of AI, what it looks like, and how it should act are rooted in popular culture. In a white paper and a panel with Cambridge University, Berggruen Fellow Maya Ganesh and the Berggruen China Center explore the literary and symbolic foundations of the machines we’re building today.
How do common cultural metaphors help us (mis)interpret big data and AI? Is it a friendly ghost, an unfeeling machine, a treacherous phantom? Read “Making Sense of the Unknown” and watch “AI Narratives: A Perspective from Classical Chinese Literature” to dissect how and why we personify technology in different cultures across time.
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