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Where did all that AIBO go?: The ‘Death’ Theory of AI Robots

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2023, 68(), pp.58-80
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.68.0.03
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : December 17, 2022
  • Accepted : January 12, 2023
  • Published : February 28, 2023

Hakyoung Shin 1

1숙명여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This article examines the meaning of the relationship between humans and AI robots, focusing on various present aspects that appear abandoned, that is, “death.” AIBO Funeral shows that AI robots are basically non-human beings and are not human-centered instrumental objects, and humans are building new relationships with them. They doubly project the ghost as “dead labor” implied by the existing capitalist commodity economy and the ghost where a “non-human object” accumulates human experiences in the process of relating to humans. The movie Sayonara, produced by Hiroshi Ishiguro and starring “Geminoid F” raises these questions. This movie depicts a departure from the relationship of “controlling human/controlled nonhuman” by preparing for the death of both. However, when considering the relationship between human and non-human beings as such an individual relationship, there is a point that is invisible. It is an aspect of the convergence and propriety of current technologies. An AI robot called DX9, described in Yusuke Miyauchi’s Johannesburg Angels, was initially developed as music-producing artificial intelligence, but various convergences occur in the process of popularizing the technology. This novel critically examines the fact that technology is used in different ways by humans, but humans cannot know the full extent of the system and control its use.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.