Sarah contributed to a panel at the annual CogX festival discussing the future of AI from humanities’ perspectives, including historical and literary critical. Sarah talks (from 20 minutes 33 seconds in) about science fiction, about how AI stories directly inform AI research, and about how AI research is driven by storytelling. She suggests that the very idea of ‘AI’ itself might be thought of as a ‘grand narrative’. She considers the cognitive value of stories, and how storytelling and storylistening offer alternative methods for thinking about what is called ‘AI ethics’.
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Sarah contributed to an episode of the first series of the University of Cambridge’s podcast – Mind Over Chatter – to explore how stories relate to climate change. She was in conversation with Richard Staley (Reader in the History and Philosophy of Science department and co-lead on the Making Climate History project) and Lord Martin Rees (cosmologist, astrophysicist, and Astronomer Royal).
The episode was produced by Nick Saffell, James Dolan, and Naomi Clements-Brod.
Sarah joined Mark Honigsbaum historian of epidemics, UNESCO’s Head of Futures Riel Miller, philosopher Rupert Read, and fellow literary scholar and New Generation Thinker Dr Lisa Mullen for a discussion with Matthew Sweet about thinking about the future, uncertainty, and stories.