Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Published by Urbanomic, 2025
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- Title
- Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
- Author
- Anna Greenspan
- Publisher
- Urbanomic
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 1913029999
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- 9781913029999
An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection that redefines how we think about artificial intelligence today—and what it might become.
Machine Decision is Not Final brings together historians, media theorists, science-fiction writers, philosophers, and artists from China and beyond to explore the nation’s deep and complex engagement with AI. Moving beyond familiar clichés, this collection examines AI not only as a technological phenomenon but as a cultural and philosophical question.
At a time when visions of AI veer between planetary cooperation and a new Cold War, this book tracks the history of Chinese AI—from pre-Cultural Revolution experiments to contemporary debates on facial recognition and ethics—while also engaging with speculative futures. Using China as a touchstone, the essays rethink what we mean by "artificiality" and "intelligence," and highlight how culturally specific models and philosophies shape our global understanding of AI.
Topics include:
- AI in Chinese philosophy, ethics, and policymaking
- Computational models in early Chinese cybernetics
- The aesthetics of Sinofuturism
- AI as a site of cultural translation and difference
Featuring contributions from leading voices including Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Benjamin Bratton, Xia Jia, Chen Quifan, Reza Negarestani, Lawrence Lek, and many more, this volume spans borders, histories, and imaginaries. Machine Decision is Not Final is both a timely reappraisal of AI’s global stakes and a guide to constructing new futures for technology and society.
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About the Author
Anna Greenspan is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Global Media at NYU Shanghai. She was the founding member of the Cybernetic Cultures Research Unit at the University of Warwick, where she defended her PhD in Philosophy. Her research focuses on urban China, material culture, philosophy of technocapitalism, and emerging media.
Bogna Konior is a writer and Assistant Arts Professor at Interactive Media Arts department of NYU Shanghai. Her work examines the philosophy of technology and digital culture, and has recently focused on post-Cold World technopolitical diversity, technological determinism, and the evolution of techno-environmental media.
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