Intelligent Machines as Racialized Other

Our narratives about intelligent machines reprise the same modes in which humans have historically dealt with “other” groups of humans, especially during the era of colonialism. Addressing unconscious assumptions involving race, gender, hierarchy, power, imperialism, and capitalism in the post-colonial world, this book argues that cultural narratives regarding intelligent machines have much to do with colonial attitudes and mindsets.

Human attitudes toward intelligent machines, colore…