From Robots to iBots:The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence
iBots are placing human beings in the midst of the greatest technological revolution since the atomic bomb,the electric light,or the printing press,while the idea that an intelli-gent machine can go mad has been a central fantasy of sci-fi.Seen within the long history of media invention,the panic over AI is nothing new,for similar to the inventions of writing and photography assumed to destroy memory and kill painting,the digital is routinely blamed for ruining the uniqueness of the analog.The humanities should calm down and approach this in a therapeutic mode.Our picture of the difference between humans and machines needs to be deconstructed,and there will be no avoiding or evading a talking cure.It is the task of iconol-ogists,who study the generation of images and words by both machines and humans,to enter into word and image dialogue with the iBots,to see if we can be friends and collaborators in the project of the human species surviving its own endemic madness and evolving into a sus-tainable global system grounded in evolutionary and ecological intelligence.
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