ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to challenge the predominant ways the author has theorized artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to the self while providing a new approach to this research that is better attuned to the evolving nature of AI. It focuses on how we make sense of the AI technology through what unfolds in our interactions with it as well as what we learn about it from others, and how we then assess who we are in relation to a specific AI program or device. In using chess as the field's theoretical testbed, AI scholars raised the ontological stakes for humans and machines to one of its highest levels, if not the highest level at the time. Analysis of the self in AI has taken place within the context of the future, one in which the ultimate goal of AI—which presents the highest stakes for humanity—is realized.
