THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MOMENT

This presentation will offer an extended reflection on the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the current historical moment. The speaker, Adrian S. Wisnicki (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), has been teaching courses on the impact of technology, including AI, on contemporary society for nearly a decade. The presentation, therefore, will consider the representation of AI in fiction, film, and culture over the last seventy or so years. It will consider how creatives have envisioned AI as both an embodied and disembodied entity and will also address some of the ways that issues related to gender and race have informed such representations. After this historical reflection, the speaker will move to discuss AI in the present day, 2024, and explore some of the most recent developments in the field and their implications. As a US-based scholar, the speaker will be keen to characterize the current reception of AI technologies like ChatGPT in the United States as a way of setting the stage for the Q&A that will comprise the second half of the presentation and offer a chance to think comparatively about the reception of AI in Europe and particularly France.

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