• Title: Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI
• Author/Editor(s) Nina Beguš
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press (November 25, 2025); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
• Paperback: 308 pages
• eBook: PDF, ePub, and Read Online
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0472057731
• ISBN-13: 978-0472057733
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Book Description

This open access book explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and its development. By examining fictional representations of AI in parallel with actual technological developments, the author presents a novel interdisciplinary framework for understanding the cultural, philosophical, and ethical dimensions of AI.

• Nina Beguš is Researcher and Lecturer at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at the University of California, Berkeley.

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