How Future Histories Of ‘Other Intelligences’ Clarify Today’s AI

In The Institute for Other Intelligences, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian combines speculative fiction and media theory to propose equitable futures for intelligent life.

An earlier version of this article appeared in Forbes.

Generative artificial intelligence, a loose category to describe a variety of machine learning techniques that produce text, images, video, and audio, and other content, has provoked heated debate about the relationship between humans and machines.

Conversations about AI safety, ethics, biased data, a…