Electric Dreams: Literary Narratives as Tools for Critically Reflecting on Intelligent Systems

IRIS Research

Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems

Project Focus

Research Questions:

  • How can literary narratives function as critical apparatuses for investigating concerns and ideas about intelligent systems?

  • How are robots and AI commodified and exploited within their environment in these narratives?

  • Do these narratives present hopeful outcomes or solutions for the commodification of the robotic or AI character?

Project Members

  • Dr. Curtis Runstedler, Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems | Institute of Literary Studies

Duration

2019 - 2025

Funding

IRIS is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Research Council of the University of Stuttgart.

DFG reference number: (UP 31/1)

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