In The Risk Perception of Artificial Intelligence, Hugo Neri examines how society has come to understand artificial intelligence by studying how cultural productions, intellectuals, and the media have shaped society’s views, understandings, and fears of artificial intelligence.

In The Risk Perception of Artificial Intelligence, Hugo Neri examines how society has come to understand artificial intelligence by studying how cultural productions, intellectuals, and the media have shaped society’s views, understandings, and fears of artificial intelligence. As an abstract term, artificial intelligence has been understood both as a discipline and a "robot's mind." In the twenty and twenty-first centuries, cultural representations in comics, television shows, and movies converged with public lectures about the risks of A.I. by prominent public figures such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk. Neri analyzes how this cultural and intellectual miscellany shapes the way we perceive artificial intelligence and whether this perception is universal or restricted to the Western world.

Chapter 1: Risk, Imagination, and Artificial Intelligence

Chapter 2: We Wanted to Try: Imagined Robots and Mathematical Experiments Pre-1960s

(in collaboration with Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro)

Chapter 3: We Have Something to Do: Defining Artificial Intelligence Amid the Scientific Space Odyssey in the 1960s and 1970s

Chapter 4: We Thought We Could Do It: Human-Machine Symbiosis, Heavy Investments, and the Raising of Futurists in the 1980s/1990s

Chapter 5: Are We Almost There?: Cutting Edge A.I. Developments, Social Media, and Politics in the 21st Century

Chapter 6: Let Us Understand Our Relationship with Artificial Intelligence

(in Collaboration with Veridiana Domingos Cordeiro)