Gustav Meyrink's The Golem, the Pygmalion bit of Ovid, or Frankenstein, for a hint that some of the stock depictions of artificial intelligence might not have all that much to do with technology at all. Richard Brautigan's All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Marvin Minsky's Will Robots Inherit the Earth?, because it really would be a shame if Kurzweil was the only technologist they heard from. Bruce Mazlish, The Man-Machine and Artificial Intelligence
Frankenstein is perfect. But only the novel, none of the films cover the theme that God sinned in creation. I can not second the Golem enough.
In similar vein to Frankenstein and the Pinocchio suggestion below, I also think the fabricants in Cloud Atlas are an interesting discussion. They are synthetic intelligence based on a biological source. They are considered throwaways even though they are designed to think and feel like humans.
I was thinking about Pinocchio in a similar vein. He is animate, and can even feel longing to be a 'real' boy, but there is something about him that isn't genuine.Gustav Meyrink's The Golem, the Pygmalion bit of Ovid, or Frankenstein, for a hint that some of the stock depictions of artificial intelligence might not have all that much to do with technology at all.