Autorentext

Ignas Kalpokas is an Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, where he also leads the MA Future Media and Journalism. His research focuses on the societal, cultural, and political impact of emerging digital technologies, political communication, post-truth and fake news, and media theory.

Julija Kalpokien is a Lithuanian qualified attorney and Junior Research Fellow at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Her research focuses on internet regulation, cybercrime, and technology regulation, with a particular focus on AI and creativity, and more generally, intellectual property and privacy law, and AI in education and culture.

Klappentext

This book highlights some of the crucial crossroads that societies face in light of the growing development and adoption of AI. This will benefit all graduate-level and scholarly readers working on AI within the fields of media and communication, cultural studies, sociology, and cultural anthropology.

Inhalt

1. A One-Way Street or Crossroads: On Thinking Otherwise

2. Solutionist Imaginaries: AI and Education

3. (Re)Locating the Author: AI and Creativity

4. Many Problems, Few Solutions: AI and Digital Heritage

5. Towards the (Last) Frontier: AI Persons

6. From Post-Work to Transhumanist Dreams: AI for Everything

7. From Robot Wars to Space Colonialism: AI and Entitlement to Violence

8. Conclusions

Index