The Representation of Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary English Literature: A Study of Human-Machine Relationships

Abstract

The overlapping speed of technology and literature has created a new stage of cultural investigation of the subject and metaphor of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is becoming known that modern English fiction is now going to AI as a narrative device that authors are implementing to push boundaries during the digital age of consciousness, morality, and identity. The theoretical approach assumed in this piece of work may be traced to quantitative to metaparadigm the concept of quantifying constructs behind the picture of AI in modern fiction. The variables, such as AI Representation Intensity (AIRI), Humanization Index (HI), Emotional Reciprocity Scale (ERS), and Ethical ambiguity Coefficient (EAC), are so developed that they represent the dynamics of the human machine relationships, which are in fact complex. Based on such theories of posthumanism, cognitive, and narratology, the given study interprets three meaningful texts, such as a book by Kazuo Ishiguro (2021) titled Klara and the Sun and the novels by Ian McEwan (2019) called Machines Like Me and by Jeanette Winterson (2019) called Frankissstein, in a bid to decipher how AI characters are expected to alquiet moral, emotional, and ontological tensions between the artificial and the human intelligent mind. The theoretical analysis shows that the AI representations of the current fiction are created as more agentic than mechanistic because they possess not only empathy but also ethical grayness. This fact suggests that literary imagination is cultural laboratory that objectifies and humanizes artificial consciousness in a measurable way. That it is a combined approach of conceptual modeling and literary interpretation, this work is applicable in the conditions of digital humanities since it theorizes the quantifiable values of AI representation and its impact on the analysis of posthuman identity and relational ethics in the twenty-first century.