Imagining AI is a new collection edited by Stephen Cave, CFI’s Director, and Kanta Dihal, recently Senior Research Fellow at CFI and now Lecturer in Science Communication at Imperial College London. Published by Oxford University Press (OUP), it draws attention to the range and variety of visions of a future with intelligent machines from around the world.
India is a linguistically diverse country, and the literary traditions of different languages often exist independently and in relative isolation from one another. This is especially true of a genre like science fiction, which has not been in the literary mainstream of many languages. Hidden under the citadels of highbrow literature, science fiction in different Indian languages has had the opportunity to develop different trajectories and different forms.
The two-day Global AI Narratives in India workshop covered an array of topics ranging from the representation of AI in Indian science fiction (panel 1) and the diverse linguistic literary traditions in India (panel 4), to the history and philosophy of AI in India (panel 2) and the controversial implementation of the Aadhaar biometric identification program (panel 3). This blog post discusses the highlights of each panel.
