AI and Pop Culture

This blog post describes the important role that AI plays in personalization of online content, the rise of hyperreality, and the growing use of AI to create new music and music genres.

New Yorker article that describes how living in a world of AI means that every style, every idea, and every possible remix can be generated as fast and frictionlessly as possible.

AI has a long history in literature and popular culture. This chapter from the book, The UF Faculty Handbook for Adding AI to Your Course, discusses AI from the Golem to The Terminator.

Members of Forbes Technology Council discuss some of the things popular culture and the public at large often get wrong about AI and what the truth of the matter actually is.

This visual chronology of bot creations begins with Robby the Robot and continues through Baymax.

This blog post describes the emergence of AI in a variety of different aspects of daily life from self-driving cars and vacuums to voice assistants like Alexa and Siri.

The author of this LinkedIn post suggests that AI as portrayed in pop culture reflects our evolving relationship with technology.

The author suggests that AI in popular culture is a reflection of our emotions and fantasies about our relationship with technology.

This blog post discussed some of the most well-known examples of AI creations in pop culture, including Frankenstein, Hal, David, and Samantha.

A blog post that discusses how AI innovations make their way into popular culture, covering films, deep fake images, and AI-fabricated vocals in music.

As artificial intelligence becomes mainstream, its infiltration into children’s lives is causing tremendous anxiety. The global panic around AI’s co-option of children’s play and cultures has manifested unpredictably.

The way that AI is depicted in popular culture affects the public's perception of AI, suggests this author.

This post explores how AI is playing an increasingly important role in film, television, literature, video games, art, music, and sports.

Pop culture portrayals of AI are an important way of educating the public about the perils and potential of AI so that they can decide how best to manage it.

This podcast transcript features co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen talking to Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, a pioneer in the field of responsible AI. Currently a Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard, with prior leadership roles at Twitter and Accenture, Rumman has first-hand insight into the real harms of AI, including algorithmic bias.

Lee Barron's book features ten chapters covering the role of AI in film, literature, television and culture and includes a look at the future of AI as depicted in pop culture.

This book offers an in-depth academic discourse on the convergence of AI, digital platforms, and popular culture, in order to understand the ways in which the platform and cultural industries have reshaped and developed algorithmic cultural production and consumption.

This wiki provides information about AI in literature organized by themes, including AI dominance, AI-controlled societies, merger of AI with humanity, AI equality, and sentient AI.

AI technologies are depicted both positively and negatively in popular culture, and their depictions in films reveals popular culture’s pervasive stereotypes and occasional timely warnings about emerging technology.

This study conducted focus groups and an online survey to determine the knowledge of AI held by the American public, and to judge whether entertainment media is a major influence on how Americans perceive AI.

This article analyzes depictions of personhood in films such as Ex Machina, WarGames, Alien and Alien Covenant, Forbidden Planet, RoboCop and AI. It suggests that popular culture has an uncertain grasp of legal personhood but provokes thought and tells us something useful about the difference between human animals, non-human animals, corporations and new artificial persons.

Novelists, filmmakers, and other artists who create popular culture have considered the issue of holding AI accountable for decades, if not centuries. In this article, the author discusses some of the ways in which some of them have thought about these issues and the insights they have had, which could guide us as we move through this important area.