Index

CONTENTS

Foreword p10

Introductions p13

1
THE DREAM OF AI 
Artificial Intelligence Avant la Lettre 
Emily D. Bilski 
p25 

Exploring AI, Sound 
and the Golem in It 
Steve Goodman (Kode9) 
and Suzanne Livingston 
p33 

Robots and 
Religiosity 
Jennifer Robertson 
p39 

Plates 
p45 

2 
MIND 
MACHINES 

Timeline 
p72 

Rules or Examples? 
Francesca Rossi 
p81 

AlphaGo: Moving 
Beyond the Rules 
Demis Hassabis and Fan Hui 
p87 

Commodities Leap
The Species Barrier 
Mark Fisher and 
Suzanne Livingston 
p93 

Plates p97 

3
DATA  WORLDS 

Al and the Empirical 
Reality of a 
Racialised Future 
Ramon Amaro 
p125 

Facing the 
Coded Gaze 
Joy Buolamwini 
p129 

Exploring Uses of 
Al and Data 
in China Today 
Jeffrey Ding and Emily Gong 
p137 

Plates p141 

4
ENDLESS 
EVOLUTION 

Are Humans 
Necessary? 
Margaret Atwood 
p165 

A Reflection 
of Ourselves 
Hiroshi Ishiguro and 
Maholo Uchida 
p175 

Thinking 
Unthinkable 
Futures 
Danielle Sands 
p181 

Plates 
p185 

Visionaries' Interviews 
p209 

List of Works 
p217 

Image Credits 
p228