Regional Histories and Competing Narratives

Presents the histories of AI in different regions and the plurality of narratives that chronicle it: Western-centred accounts, Asian, Arab and African contributions, and debates over beginnings and priority. Excludes contemporary national policies, which belong to 14.6, national case studies, which belong to 15.5, and the general intellectual roots, which belong to 1.1.

• 1.1 Intellectual Roots and the Pre-Computer Era
• 14.6 China, Japan, India and the Global South
• 15.5 National and Sovereign Case Studies

• 1.1 Intellectual Roots and the Pre-Computer Era
• 1.2 Turing, Dartmouth and the Beginnings
• 1.3 Cybernetics and Symbolic AI
• 1.4 Expert Systems
• 1.5 AI Winters
• 1.6 The Statistical Turn
• 1.7 Deep Learning
• 1.8 Foundation and Generative Models
• 1.9 Agentic AI and World Models