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“Violent Delights Have Violent Endings”: Artificial Intelligence and Humanity- Dozent/in
- Lisa Schädlich, B.A.
- Angaben
- Übung
2 SWS
Studium Generale
Zeit und Ort: Mi 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature and culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08.03.2018 (10:00) - 08.06.2018 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- When HBO decided in 2015 to turn Michael Crichton’s Westworld into a television series with Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy as producers and writers, AI was by no means a groundbreaking or new concept. Rather, the series took the premise of Crichton’s screenplay from 1973 and turned it upside down. What if we as humans actually root for the very thing that wants to kill us? Sam Harris, neuroscientist and philosopher, argues that it’s simply enjoyable to think about, getting killed by an AI; that “death by sci-fi is fun”. The last decades have seen a rise in narratives that focus on the relationship between humans and AIs but even though a high number of those narratives feature AI as a menace, movies like Spike Jonze’s Her or Disney’s Big Hero 6 reveal a different side to what Harris calls “humanity’s biggest threat.”
In this class, we will analyse how AI is portrayed in literature, movies and TV series and observe how humanity constructs itself and the corresponding AI.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Obligatory Reading:
Isaac Asimov – various short stories from his Robot series
Philip K. Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
David Foster Wallace – “E Unibus Pluram” (1990)
Obligatory Watching:
Michael Crichton – Westworld (1973)
Ridley Scott – Blade Runner (1982)
Mamoru Oshii – Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Spike Jonze – Her (2014)
Alex Garland – Ex-Machina (2014)
Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy – Westworld (2016-)
Denis Villeneuve - Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Note: This is both a reading and watching intensive class. The movies/tv series will be available to be borrowed from my office from March 5th .
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 2
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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