Chris McKitterick's "AI, Sci-Fi and More" Reading List

Thanks for sharing such interesting readings, everyone! I would have sent my own (below) earlier, but life has been incredibly consuming. Without further ado, here are a bunch of AI and "Technological Singularity" reads that I use in my and Phil Baringer's "Science, Technology, and Society: Examining the Future Through a Science Fiction Lens" course:

Some short stories (we use more, but these are available online) about AI:

• Naomi Kritzer's story, "Cat Pictures Please."
• "Maneki Neko," by Bruce Sterling (referenced in "Cat Pictures Please").
• Cory Doctorow's story, "I, Robot."

• Movies and shows:
• Ex Machina (2015) - a must-watch for considering possible AI futures.
• Her (2013) - what if our device operating systems are AIs?
• Battlestar Galactica.
• Blade Runner.
• Chappie (Neill Blomkamp's movie about a child AI).
• The "Data's Dreams" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• Interstellar (for the TARS 'bots).
• Any Terminator movie.
• An episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles (great spinoff in the Terminator universe).
• CRACKED "After Hours" short film, "Why The Scariest Sci-Fi Robot Uprising Has Already Begun."
• Articles:
• Rolling Stone article, "Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report" ( Part 1; Part 2).
• Wall Street Journal article, "Could Robots Replace Jurors?"
• National Geographic article: "Us and Them."
• io9 article, "Prominent Scientists Sign Letter of Warning About AI Risks" (and here's the letter).
• Cory Doctorow's essay, "I Can't Let You Do That, Dave: What it means to design our computers and devices to disobey us."
• NPR story, "Weighing The Good And The Bad Of Autonomous Killer Robots In Battle."
• Asimov's SF magazine article, "Welcome Our Robot Overlords!" by James Patrick Kelly.
• Ray Kurzweil's comprehensive website about artificial intelligence.
• Kaila Colbin article (or Spark Lab talk) on "Technological Unemployment: The Real Reason This Elephant Chart is Terrifying."
• Wired article, "Does This Terrifying Robot Really Have to Look Like a Mermaid?"
• Rolling Stone article, "Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Part 2."
• Futurism.com article, "Google's Artificial Intelligence Beats the World Champion of Go for the Second Time."
• The Encyclopedia of SF's "Androids" entry.
• The Encyclopedia of SF's "Robots" entry.
• Donna Haraway's essay, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century."
• Adbusters article, “The Artistic Lives of Machines.”
• Kansas City Star's article, "'Chappie' and other movies ask: Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence?"
• "Will Superintelligent AI Ignore Humans Instead of Destroying Us?" by Jason Koebler (in response to Zelijko Svedic's "Singularity and the anthropocentric bias").
• Future of Life Institute's website. Their motto: "Technology has given life the opportunity to flourish like never before... or to self-destruct."
• Novels:
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the book Blade Runner was based on).
• Robopocalypse.
• Multimedia:
• "Robot Companions: A New Breed of Social Machines" infographic.
• Check out the recent AI conference held in NYC, "Ethics of Artificial Intelligence." They recorded the whole thing. You can watch it here.
• Robots in space! R2, NASA's robonaut.
• Thoughtful fun: xkcd's take on AI vs. human intelligence (don't forget to hover your mouse over the comics to see the full narrative).
• Robot state of the art: Boston Dynamics' Atlas.
• Check out the functional $1 million battlemech for sale on Amazon.
• "The Last Bastion" video.

Some more rec's that aren't online:

• Isaac Asimov's story, "The Evitable Conflict."
• Robin Wayne Bailey's story, "Keepers of Earth."
• C.L. Moore's story, "No Woman Born."
• Jack Williamson's, "With Folded Hands" - the original robot-laws-gone-amuck story.
• Lisa Goldstein's story, "Paradise is a Walled Garden."
• Alastair Reynolds' story, "Weather."

And if you want hard-core Technological Singularity reads, here you go:
Ray Kurzweil's book, The Age of Spiritual Machines (free download on KurzweilAI.net here - scroll down to see the chapters and click to read each).

• Vernor Vinge's essay, "What is the Singularity?" (which links to lots more info about the technological singularity).
• Article, "Proof that The End of Moore's Law is Not The End of The Singularity."
• Article on the Simulation Hypothesis.
• Article on "The Measurement That Would Reveal The Universe As A Computer Simulation."
• Charles Stross' novel, Accelerando. Whole book is available for free download on Stross' website here, or you can also buy the print book.

Enjoy!

Best,
Chris