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.
The need to break through the barriers between and within the sciences and social sciences was a central theme at the Science Forum, co-hosted by the Department of Science and Innovation and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). The event itself, a virtual undertaking, brought together thinkers of multiple disciplines, across Africa and internationally.
At a recent virtual workshop on African narratives of AI, digital policy researcher Chenai Chair argued that AI policies need to consider gendered realities and ensure that injustices are not replicated as we race towards a digital world. The workshop, co-hosted by the University of Cambridge and the HSRC as part of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence’s project on Global AI Narratives, brought together thinkers across sub-Saharan Africa to explore modalities and perceptions of AI in Africa today.
