Metaphors of symbiosis: What science fiction movies reveal about human-AI imaginaries
通过分析15部人工智能题材的科幻电影，揭示人与AI之间竞争共生、互利共生、寄生共生等多种关系隐喻，帮助管理学习者反思主流技术想象。
How we think about the use of artificial intelligence to achieve business goals has become normalized as a “working together” symbiosis metaphor. Yet public discourse and popular fiction oppose such a view with alternative critical and dystopian positions. We advocate that in order to negotiate their own positions around artificial intelligence, management learners can engage with such contradictory views through the sociotechnical imaginaries captured by science fiction. We interpret 15 movies featuring artificial intelligence to reveal multiple human-artificial intelligence imaginaries and the metaphors that structure them. We find metaphors of: competitive symbiosis , where humans and artificial intelligence compete for work, symbiotic mutualism , where humans and artificial intelligence benefit each other, symbiotic parasitism , where either humans or artificial intelligence feed off the other, and we also uncover the degree to which these relations are facultative (optional) or obligate (inescapable). We show how movies can be used to support learning by inviting sensitivity to the unreflective reproduction of dominant sociotechnical imaginaries and their structuring metaphors.