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I created this Apple Music playlist to accompany our event.

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Inspired by AI Questions by Stephanie Ojeda Ponce on Apple Music

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Picture of Octavia Butler signing a book*

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"Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected — by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. This is their story."

Book series: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago

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Picture of Octavia Butler signing a book

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Picture of Monáe speaking at a National Book Festival*

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The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

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The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

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Inspired by her own music album, Monáe explores themes of identity, technology, and society in a future where humanity and AI strive for co-existence.*

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Picture of Janelle Monáe at the National Book Festival

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Nnedi Okorafor is an Award-winning African Futurism and African Jujuism author of the short story "Sunrise" and many other books and stories.

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"Cyber-proletarian" story art illustration by Heidi Tailleferr

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"Cyber-proletarian" is a short story about an AI robot that destroys her creator and develops a plan to pass as human and develop a fertility treatment as a method of changing human reproductive nature.

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Picture of Okoye, Black Panther, Shuri movie character costumes

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Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction: MoPoP

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Infinite Worlds of Science Fiction: MoPoP

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The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle has a permanent exhibit displaying science fiction pop culture artifacts such as the noisy cricket from Men in Black. I took the picture above that the 2019 Ruth E. Carter Afrofuturism in Costume Design exhibit at MoPop. The exhibit points out ways pop culture and science influence each other.

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Picture of Black Panther movie costumes at MoPop

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Still from the film "Space is the Place" starring Sun Ra and his Arkestra“Publicity Stills: Space is the Place,” TCD/Prod.DB / Alamy Stock Photo

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AFROFUTURISM: A History of Black Futures

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AFROFUTURISM: A History of Black Futures

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This is a virtual and in-museum exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute. I love that they include lots of pop culture icons and show how artists like Parliament Funkadelic contribute to building hope, community, and knowledge.

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A History of Black Futures

From Benjamin Banneker's Almanac to P. Funk's Mothership, from Octavia Butler's fiction to the Black Panther suit, Afrofuturism has provided a dynamic outlet for authors, thinkers, artists, and activists to understand and interpret the history of race and Black cultural identity.

Drawing from the past and present through a prism of technology and fantasy, Afrofuturism provides a powerful lens for imagining the African American experience. From artists to astronauts, the themes of Afrofuturism reflect the forward-facing possibilities of Black life-possibilities which stretch beyond contemporary reality.

Afrofuturism tells us about how the past thought about the future; and how African Americans dreamt of worlds they wished to occupy and soon brought into being.

Kevin Young, Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

Watch this digital space to continue a journey through reimagined pasts and galactic futures as Searchable Museum expands Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures throughout 2023.

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Skip to Content A History of Black Futures From Benjamin Banneker's Almanac to P. Funk's Mothership, from Octavia Butler's fiction to the Black Panther suit, Afrofuturism has provided a dynamic outlet for authors, thinkers, artists, and activists to understand and interpret the history of race and Black cultural identity.

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QueerSpace Podcast: We’re All Stories In The End

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QueerSpace Podcast: We’re All Stories In The End

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QueerSpace Podcast: We’re All Stories In The End

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Queer Space is a podcast series supported by the Smithsonian Institute Podcast. Anchors Erin Barker (StoryCollider) and Sofia Soto-Sugar (Airospace Museum) interview Hannah Oliver Depp of Loyalty Books about queer themes in science fiction.

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QueerSpace: We’re All Stories In The End

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In science fiction, the possibilities are seemingly endless. Authors can literally rewrite a world in terms of gender, sexuality, and culture, making something that is more inclusive and often more interesting. We talk to bookseller Hannah Oliver Depp of Loyalty Books about the history of queer worldbuilding in sci-fi literature.

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According to the SYFY network, the show is "Considered by many to be one of the best television series ever made, Battlestar Galactica picks up just as Cylons - intelligent robots designed by humankind - commit mass genocide against humanity. Only Battlestar Galactica, the last of the Colonial Fleet, survives the attack. Driven by prophetic visions and political necessity, the Galactica travels through uncharted space in hopes of finding the mythical, lost 13th colony – Earth."

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Show GIF: Number 6 telling Baltar "All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again."

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Movie GIF: Samantha & Theodore enjoying a night out 

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Her (2013) - Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams

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Her (2013) - Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams

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"He decides to purchase the new OS1, which is advertised as the world's first artificially intelligent operating system, "It's not just an operating system, it's a consciousness," the ad states. Theodore quickly finds himself drawn in with Samantha, the voice behind his OS1. As they start spending time together they grow closer and closer and eventually find themselves in love. Having fallen in love with his OS, Theodore finds himself dealing with feelings of both great joy and doubt. As an OS, Samantha has powerful intelligence that she uses to help Theodore in ways others hadn't, but how does she help him deal with his inner conflict of being in love with an OS?" - Bob Philbot, IMDB

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Joaquin Phoenix in Her, smiling and spinning - POV his date, the operating system

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The official synopsis of I, Robot is "In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity"

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I, Robot movie GIF: Sonny looks up and asks "Can you?"

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What ethical considerations does AI themed art (literature, shows, movies, paintings, etc.) prompt us to think about?

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An illustration expressing the relationship between artificial intelligence and democratic and ethical issues. The image portrays abstract concepts often linked with democracy, such as a delicate set of balancing scales and a diverse array of human hands casting votes into a ballot box. For ethics, symbols like the tree of life or a compass indicating moral directions can be depicted. The central figure in the image is a futuristic, transparent AI entity interwoven with these symbols, suggesting the impact 

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Check out Highline Library ChatGPT & AI Library Guide! There are general resources and specific recommendations for students and teachers. It's mostly non-fiction.

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ChatGPT is a language model developed by OpenAI. It's a variant of the GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) architecture and has been trained on a large corpus of text data to generate human-like responses to a given prompt. ChatGPT can be used for a variety of natural language processing tasks, including text generation, conversation, and answering questions.

The explanation above was written by ChatGPT. Prompt: What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a type of computer program that can understand and respond to human language. Think of it like a very smart chatbot that can answer questions, hold conversations, and even write stories or poems. It was created by a company called OpenAI and was trained on a huge amount of text from the internet, books, and other sources. This training allows ChatGPT to generate responses that sound like they were written by a human.
The above explanation was also written by ChatGPT. Prompt: Explain what chatgpt is to someone with a limited understanding of technology

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Highline College Library: AI and ChatGPT Information: Home

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Highline College Library: AI and ChatGPT Information: Home

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Based on history, what are are humans most likely to mainly use AI for?

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Pringles 2020 Rick & Morty Superbowl Ad

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What planet and people problems could AI help solve?

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"Robots" Discover it® Card Customer Service :30 Commercial featuring Jennifer Coolidge

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Image from Battlestar Galactica, SyFy Network

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Battlestar Galactica is a series that originally aired in 1978 and was remade in 2004 (with Edward James Olmos!). In this series, the robot Cylons that take control of Earth are undistinguishable from humans.

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Author Kim Fu at the National Book Festival

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"Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867" (2022) by Kim Fu

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"Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867" (2022) by Kim Fu

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"Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867" is a short story from author Kim Fu. Published in 2022's Lesser Known Monsters, this story features a world where characters can experience vivid dream simulations to experiences fantasies far from reality. As one reviewer writes, this story "opens up real questions about corporate ethics and companies’ responsibility for the addictive nature of their technologies" (ZYZZYVA).

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Painter Gerardo Peña, aka @perikotheartist, prompts us to question our perception.

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“What is life?” 11”x17” signed print | perikotheartist

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"Following humanity's mass extinction, a teen raised alone by a maternal droid finds her entire world shaken when she encounters another human" (Netflix).

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Watch I Am Mother | Netflix Official Site

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Following humanity's mass extinction, a teen raised alone by a maternal droid finds her entire world shaken when she encounters another human. Watch trailers & learn more.

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Artists are using AI for collaboration, remixes, immitating celebrity features, and more. There are even popular artists that are created by producers, songwriters, and other music techs using AI.

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AI: More Than Human is a major exhibition exploring creative and scientific developments in AI, demonstrating its potential to revolutionise our lives. The exhibition takes place at the Barbican Centre, London from 16 May-26 Aug 2019.

Part of Life Rewired, our 2019 season exploring what it means to be human when technology is changing everything.

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12 songs created by AI - Google Arts & Culture

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I really like how the characters in this movie. Even though the data center coming to the town isn't one of the main points, it sets off a series of (violent) events.