Book launch and Discussion: Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines

Discussions:

• Imagining Decolonial AI: Dr Kanta Dihal (Imperial College London/LCFI Cambridge)

• Engineering Robots with Heart in Japan: The Politics of Cultural Difference in Artificial Emotional Intelligence: Hirofumi Katsuno, PhD (Doshisha University)

• The Russian Imaginary of Robots, Cyborgs and Intelligent Machines: Anzhelika Solovyeva, PhD (Charles University)

Speaker Bios:

Dr Kanta Dihal is Lecturer in Science Communication at Imperial College London and Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. She is co-editor of the books AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2023) and has co-authored a series of papers on AI narratives with Dr Stephen Cave, including ‘The Whiteness of AI’ (Philosophy and Technology, 2020). She is currently writing the book Stories in Superposition.

Hirofumi Katsuno, PhD is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Media Studies in the Faculty of Social Studies at Doshisha University, Kyoto. His primary research interest is the socio-cultural impact of new media technologies, particularly focusing on the formation of imagination, agency, and presence in technologically mediated environments in the age of AI and robotics. He is a co-organizer of the ethnographic research project Model Emotion (www.modelemotion.org) and a co-investigator of the international joint research project Rule of Law in the Age of AI: Distributive Principles of Legal Liability for Multi-Species Societies, funded by UKRI (UK) and JST (Japan).

Anzhelika Solovyeva, PhD is Assistant Professor at the Department of Security Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague. She has been affiliated with the Charles University Research Centre of Excellence dedicated to the topic of ‘Human-Machine Nexus and the Implications for the International Order’. Her latest monograph, co-authored with Nik Hynek, is Militarizing Artificial Intelligence: Theory, Technology, and Regulation (Routledge, 2022).

Recorded Presentation | 28 April 2023

#Imaginaries #History #InterculturalApproaches #Japan #Russia #MENARegion