SF 영화와 드라마에 나타난 기술적 타자로서의 인공지능 캐릭터 연구

Abstract

The practical use of artificial intelligence has been accelerated by the advancement of technology, which also allowed artificial intelligence to emerge in the real world and interact with humans. Media has been producing fictitious characters based on the AI as protagonist or antagonist. Through analyzing the process of forming an identity of AI characters in fictional movies and dramas, it will be possible to infer the answer to the socio-cultural problem of artificial intelligence.<BR> In this study, the process of forming identity of AI characters as ‘Technical Others’ was analyzed based on Frantz Fanon’s colonial theory. First of all, AI characters created by human perceive their physical differences as deficiencies through comparison with human. Second, they desire making mutual relationship with humans and becoming members of human society. In this process, they try to prove their human-like features through mutual-recognition. Finally, as the result of their desire, they experience ego-regression or the state of unconsciousness. This blank is filled with the identity as ‘the others’, and as a result, the AI characters solidify their formed identity as a ‘technical others’ in the hierarchical relationship of humanistic ideology.<BR> AI characters are non-human beings that break the boundaries of the binomial confrontation like subject-other, fiction-reality, furthermore, humanism-posthumanism. So through analyzing former AI characters, it is expected that the identity of AI characters can be defined socioculturally and offer alternative directions of preparing for the era of posthumanism.