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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Sidney Poitier
Sound, conflict and central heating
Lady Antonia Fraser
Queen Charlotte, fashion and music
New Thinking: Fashion, sustainability and Earth Day
Hilma af Klint
Tartan, Kidnapped and Highland writing
Galatea and Shakespeare
Caruso, Elsie Houston, Peter Brathwaite
Land and soil politics
Ginger Rogers
Children of the Waters
Pirates
Revolutionary free speech
Fugitive slaves, Victorian justice
Religion and Science
A family of witches
New Thinking: Raiding Gay’s the Word & Magnus Hirschfeld
The Rossettis and Walter Pater
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The Infinite Monkey Cage
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
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Elis James and John Robins