The 2019 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University launches today, with the judges announced and submissions opening to find the best short story for 2019. It remains a total pleasure to work with the BBC on this partnership, and with First Story on the BBC Young Writers’ Award with First Story and Cambridge University, and the BBC Student Critics’ Award with First Story and Cambridge University. You can find all the details about the awards, including how to enter, here.

Over the past year, the AI Narratives project at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, in collaboration with the Royal Society, has held a series of four workshops exploring:

• which narratives around intelligent machines are most prevalent, and their historical roots;
• what can be learned from how the narrative around other complex, new technologies developed, and the impact of these;
• how narratives are shaping the development of AI, and the role of arts and media in this process; and
• the implications of current AI narratives for researchers and communicators.

Today we’re delighted to publish a report which brings together the conclusions of these workshops, and which should hopefully be useful for anyone interested in how AI is portrayed and perceived.