Different cultures have been imagining intelligent machines since long before we could build them.
These visions vary greatly across different religious, philosophical, literary and cinematic traditions. Yet, as AI begins to fulfil its potential, many of these perspectives are marginalised. Hollywood narratives dominate the cultural sphere, while the technology itself is developed by a narrow elite that is disproportionately white, male and US-based.
The Global AI Narratives (GAIN) research project aims to understand how cultures beyond the Anglophone West imagine life with intelligent machines, and at the same time create a genuinely global community of scholars who can relate these diverse visions to pressing questions of AI ethics and governance.
The goals of GAIN are therefore:
To understand how different cultures and regions perceive the risks and benefits of AI, and the influences that are shaping those perceptions.
To create a global community of experts who can relate these diverse visions to pressing questions of AI ethics and governance.
To foster interdisciplinary academic research from underrepresented regions and groups through collaborative projects and publications.
