One of my pre-pandemic, end of the academic year, June treats had become a trip down to London to take part in, and absorb the atmosphere and events at, the annual CogX Festival. It’s a rare event where academics, policymakers, technologists, industry people and many more come together to share knowledge around all things AI. As part of a series of public events for the Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar – Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power – myself, co-organiser Richard Staley, and our postdoctoral research associate Jonnie Penn took part in 2021’s hybrid CogX Festival. We talked about what we’ve been doing on the Seminar for the past year, about some of the themes that have guided our discussions, and about AI and climate change. I spoke about AI and stories, drawing off the many things I’ve learnt over the course of the Seminar, thinking that has gone into and come out of the new book, Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning, and research that’s informing my plans for the next book (I think!), on the intersections of AI research and literature in the mid-twentieth century.