Building on our work on the AI Narratives project at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, this month we launched the Global AI Narratives, a three-year project running from 2018 to 2021. During that time, we’ll be holding ten one- to two-day workshops across the world, each taking place in a different region outside the UK and North America. Each workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners from fields related to AI narratives, such as science fiction scholars, artists, AI researchers, philosophers, writers, and anthropologists, in order to explore the prevalent AI Narratives in different regions of the globe. We hope that these collaborations will foster underrepresented voices that are currently absent from global AI debates.

The first workshop took place at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and the second at Waseda University in Tokyo, in September 2018.