Kanta Dihal
@drdihal.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Science Communication, Imperial College London. Associate Fellow, Institute for Technology and Humanity, University of Cambridge. Books: AI Narratives, Imagining AI. 🇳🇱🇸🇷🏳️🌈
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.
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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.
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...
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...
link.springer.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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...
Reposted by Kanta Dihal
@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
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
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March 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
@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
Reposted by Kanta Dihal
This is a fantastic introduction:
The Whiteness of AI
Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Whiteness of AI
Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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 ...
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November 23, 2024 at 4:47 PM
This is a fantastic introduction:
The Whiteness of AI
Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Whiteness of AI
Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Kanta Dihal
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.
A reason I keep telling you to read all you can by @cyborgapologist.bsky.social @shengokai.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @mrvi.cold-albion.net & others is some people are doing truly crucial, groundbreaking work on intersections of tech, embodiment, & society & are absolutely not getting their due.
October 18, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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.