Kanta Dihal

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We're hiring! Teaching Fellow in Science Communication - Digital Media Campaigning (Part-Time): www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Application deadline 11 December.

19 YEARS 😱

Wired UK seem to be a few weeks behind the US one - the US edition had a feature interview with that guy last month in their special issue on health.

Kanta Dihal sitting in a chair on a stage, holding a microphone. In front of her is a table displaying copies of the book Imagining AI.

The paperback edition of IMAGINING AI is here! I held it for the first time last week, when I was invited to speak at the @wto.org Public Forum in Geneva. Half the price of the hardback one! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

AI is creating a new gender divide Laura Bates told Newsweek there will be a "widening gap in terms of women's access to and uptake of new technologies…this will have a devastating impact."

It's happening.

www.newsweek.com/ai-misogyny-...

@ainowinstitute.bsky.social @swachter.bsky.social @smw.bsky.social @drdihal.bsky.social

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Job alert! We're looking for a part-time teaching fellow to deliver the module ‘Science Communication and Global Justice’ to students on our MSc Science Communication. Details here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

The deadline is 7th July. Do get in touch if you have questions and please share!

Dr Kanta Dihal (@drdihal.bsky.social) being warmly introduced by Dr Laura Ludtke (@ladyelectric.bsky.social) before her excellent keynote at #BSLS2025, “A Mythology of AI.”

Griefbots, Deadbots, Postmortem Avatars: on Responsible Applications of Generative AI in the Digital Afterlife Industry - Philosophy & Technology To analyze potential negative consequences of adopting generative AI solutions in the digital afterlife industry (DAI), in this paper we present three speculative design scenarios for AI-enabled simul...

Have you read this? It's by two colleagues of mine, I had no idea the postmortem AI industry was already so huge: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines Abstract. This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real artificial intelligence (AI) begins to

@stephenjcave.bsky.social, @drdihal.bsky.social, and Sarah Dillon’s 2020 edited volume, ‘AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines’ examines the prehistory of key concerns of contemporary AI discourse: academic.oup.com/book/36637

Fascinating column on the meanings of AI by Gillian Tett in @financialtimes.com this weekend. www.ft.com/content/0926...
(Citing @drdihal.bsky.social's and my book *Imagining AI* 🙂🤖
global.oup.com/academic/pro...) @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social

The Whiteness of AI - Philosophy & Technology This paper focuses on the fact that AI is predominantly portrayed as white—in colour, ethnicity, or both. We first illustrate the prevalent Whiteness of real and imagined intelligent machines in four ...

This is a fantastic introduction:

The Whiteness of AI
Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Like, if you're thinking on how technology intersects w/ society, eugenics, race, disability, gender, & sexuality but w/o people like (but not limited to) @gsvoss.bsky.social @drdihal.bsky.social @marika.bsky.social @jaarboss.bsky.social @hypervisible.bsky.social @savasavasava.bsky.social? Fix that.

Okay, I think I'm officially done with no-longer-Twitter. Happy Ides of March! On to bluer skies.