Future fables: literature, evolution and artificial intelligence

未来寓言：文学、进化论和人工智能

• 批准号: FT200100914
• 负责人: Prof Christopher Danta
• 金额: $ 65.95万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT200100914
• 关键词: Future; fables; literature; evolution; artificial

The future of AI is a site of considerable philosophical and cultural anxiety in the West. Given the future of AI is currently only available to publics through literary or fictional tropes, it is vital that we investigate the historical evolution of these literary or fictional tropes of AI to understand its future direction. This project aims to understand (1) how the post-Darwinian literary imagination has shaped our current anxieties about AI and (2) how literary and scientific writers after Darwin rethink the future of the human species by imagining the co-evolution of humans, animals and machines. Expected outcomes of the project include conceptual resources to understand the human-nonhuman relation and the future of AI.

人工智能的未来在西方引起了相当大的哲学和文化焦虑。鉴于人工智能的未来目前只能通过文学或虚构的比喻向公众提供，我们必须调查这些文学或虚构的人工智能比喻的历史演变，以了解其未来的方向。该项目旨在了解（1）后达尔文文学想象如何塑造我们当前对人工智能的焦虑，以及（2）达尔文之后的文学和科学作家如何通过想象人类，动物和机器的共同进化来重新思考人类物种的未来。该项目的预期成果包括概念资源，以了解人类与非人类的关系和人工智能的未来。