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.
Narratives about intelligent machines can influence the development, adoption, reception and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is hugely overlooked by the Western mainstream when it comes to discussing the future of artificial intelligence. Recognizing the vital importance of diversity in the global debate on what AI is and should be, this report examines the narratives about technological futures spreading in the Arab world.
the GAIN workshop in Cairo aimed to set up a new intellectual space for researchers, artists and technologists working on AI in the Middle East and North Africa, and allow them to not only deliberate over how the vision of technology spreading in the Arab world might differ from that dominating in the West – but also how this vision can shape the development and future use of AI globally.
