Co-edited by Associate Professor of Contemporary Global Media Anna Greenspan, Director of NYU Shanghai’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and Culture, together with Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Arts (IMA) Bogna Konior, former Visiting Professor Benjamin Bratton, and Amy Ireland, this new volume traces the history of Chinese artificial intelligence and reexamines China’s engagement with AI beyond the clichés that dominate contemporary debate.. Contributing experts from across various fields draw on a mixture of speculative thought experiments and cutting-edge use cases to offer views on topics including AI and Chinese philosophy, AI ethics and policy-making, the development of computational models in early Chinese cybernetics, and the aesthetics of Sinofuturism. It provides a fresh perspective on what AI is today in China, and what it might become.
About the authors
Anna Greenspan is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Global Media at NYU Shanghai and a Global Network Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at NYU. She is also a Co-Director of NYU Shanghai's Center of AI and Culture. Her research focuses on urban futures and emerging media. Anna holds a PhD in Continental Philosophy from Warwick University, UK.
Bogna Konior is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media Arts (IMA) at NYU Shanghai. She is also a Research Fellow in the Antikythera Program on Speculative Computation at the Berggruen Institute, and a mentor in the Synthetic Intelligence program at Medialab-Matadero Madrid.