This course offers a critical introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its often-overlooked historical, philosophical, cultural, political, economic, and ecological dimensions. We will engage with wide-ranging works in Science and Technology Studies (STS), Computer Science, History and Anthropology of Computing, Media Studies, and Climate Science to open different interdisciplinary vantage points for looking at the diverse pasts, fast-paced present, and possible futures of AI. Students will learn how to approach critical and urgent questions such as: What exactly is AI? How old is it? Why is it considered so powerful and futuristic in the contemporary era? How has it been imagined, engineered, and used at different times and places in world history? What can we learn from the past failures of AI? How do we hold AI systems accountable for environmental damage and political discrimination against racial and gender minorities? Who can participate in debating and designing our AI futures?