Dr Kanta Dihal

Postdoctoral Researcher, Project lead

Dr Kanta Dihal is a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. She leads two research projects, Global AI Narratives and Decolonizing AI. Her research focuses on the portrayals and perceptions of intelligent machines across cultures, and how they help us think about ethics and bias in new technologies. She has a PhD in science communication from the University of Oxford, and is co-editor of the book AI Narratives (2020). With Stephen Cave, she has written a series of papers on AI narratives, including ‘The Whiteness of AI’ (Philosophy and Technology,2020). She has advised the World Economic Forum, the UK House of Lords, and the United Nations on portrayals and perceptions of AI.