Two years living at sea taught New Generation Thinker Kerry McInerney values which she wants to apply to the development of AI. Her Essay explores the "sustainable AI" movement and looks at visions of the future in novels including Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan and Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl. Dr McInerney is a Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to put academic research on radio.
Producer: Julian Siddle
You can hear more from Kerry in Free Thinking and New Thinking episodes available as Arts & Ideas podcasts called AI, feminism, human/machines and Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes
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Life, art and drama in the kitchen
Glenda Jackson and Filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
Portraits
Ideas about health
Adam Smith
Yellowface, AI and Asian stereotypes
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Nature Memoirs
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The Troubles in Northern Ireland
Sneezing, smells and noses
Linda Grant and Jewish history
Mermaids, Caribbean tales and copyright
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Rocky Horror and camp
Zimbabwean writing
Agoraphobia
Mountaineering, Lizzie Le Blond, sport and science
Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
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