Artificial Intelligence and the Complexities of Love and Creativity in Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun

“Artificial Intelligence and the Complexities of Love and Creativity in Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun,” Jil Larson, Professor in the Department of English. 5:30 p.m. in Room 2209 of the Student Center. Co-sponsor: Department of English.

This talk explores how Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Klara and the Sun helps us think about the ethics of artificial intelligence and other technological advances in relation to the perennial philosophical question of what it means to be human. It examines three of the ways the novel explores this question. The first involves narrative and identity: how we tell our stories to ourselves. The second involves love: how our words, stories and conversations foster complex relationships. The third involves Ishiguro’s subtle metafictional meanings: how we are driven to make and learn from art and creative representations of ourselves.