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Through New Eyes: Artificial Intelligence, Technological Unemployment, and Transhumanism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun

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  • Santiago Mejia

    (Fordham University)

  • Dominique Nikolaidis

    (Fordham University)

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Klara and the Sun, the latest novel by Nobel-prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, forces one to reckon with one's own anxieties about the future of emerging technologies and confront deep questions about the nature of dignity, existence, and humanity. The novel also provides one with complex characters and a speculative future through which to live new lives, experience novel worlds, and see through different eyes. At the same time, the novel’s world offers us an uncanny distance from our own, making us prone to pass judgments on the characters’ moral faults that we later come to recognize are also our own.

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  • Santiago Mejia & Dominique Nikolaidis, 2022. "Through New Eyes: Artificial Intelligence, Technological Unemployment, and Transhumanism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 178(1), pages 303-306, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:178:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1007_s10551-022-05062-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-022-05062-9
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