Kanta Dihal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1506990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kanta Dihal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kanta |
| FAMILY NAME | Dihal |
| SIGNATURE | DIHAL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2292-7221 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Who makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920–2020
It is well established both that women are underrepresented in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and that media representations of professions have impact on career choices and prospects. We therefore hypothesised that women are underrepresented in portrayals of AI researchers in influential films. We tested this by analysing a corpus of the 142 most influential films featuring AI from 1920 to 2020, of which 86 showed one or more AI resea…
Imagining AI
Race and AI
This commentary is a response to ‘More than Skin Deep’ by Shelley M. Park (Park, More than skin deep: A response to “The Whiteness of AI”, Philosophy & Technology, 2021), and a development of our own 2020 paper ‘The Whiteness of AI’. We aim to explain how representations of AI can be varied in one sense, whilst not being diverse. We argue that Whiteness’s claim to universal humanity permits a broad range of roles to White humans and White-present…
AI Narratives
The Whiteness of AI
This paper focuses on the fact that AI is predominantly portrayed as white—in colour, ethnicity, or both. We first illustrate the prevalent Whiteness of real and imagined intelligent machines in four categories: humanoid robots, chatbots and virtual assistants, stock images of AI, and portrayals of AI in film and television. We then offer three interpretations of the Whiteness of AI, drawing on critical race theory, particularly the idea of the W…
Retrofitting Robot Stories
140 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) Grant Morrison and Frank Quiety’s JLA: Earth 2 (2000), and Ion Storm’s Anadchronox (2001) are not explained to the reader. Edrei shows how the reader must piece together clues in the narrative to understand the larger context that the protagonist naturally understands. While this is a fascinating article, Edrei writes as though the reader has read each text. The lack of useful background context about…
Hopes and fears for intelligent machines in fiction and reality
The Many Dimensions of Charles Howard Hinton
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The Many Dimensions of Charles Howard Hinton
Hopes and fears for intelligent machines in fiction and reality
AI Narratives
The Whiteness of AI
This paper focuses on the fact that AI is predominantly portrayed as white—in colour, ethnicity, or both. We first illustrate the prevalent Whiteness of real and imagined intelligent machines in four categories: humanoid robots, chatbots and virtual assistants, stock images of AI, and portrayals of AI in film and television. We then offer three interpretations of the Whiteness of AI, drawing on critical race theory, particularly the idea of the W…
Retrofitting Robot Stories
140 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) Grant Morrison and Frank Quiety’s JLA: Earth 2 (2000), and Ion Storm’s Anadchronox (2001) are not explained to the reader. Edrei shows how the reader must piece together clues in the narrative to understand the larger context that the protagonist naturally understands. While this is a fascinating article, Edrei writes as though the reader has read each text. The lack of useful background context about…
Race and AI
This commentary is a response to ‘More than Skin Deep’ by Shelley M. Park (Park, More than skin deep: A response to “The Whiteness of AI”, Philosophy & Technology, 2021), and a development of our own 2020 paper ‘The Whiteness of AI’. We aim to explain how representations of AI can be varied in one sense, whilst not being diverse. We argue that Whiteness’s claim to universal humanity permits a broad range of roles to White humans and White-present…
Who makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920–2020
It is well established both that women are underrepresented in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and that media representations of professions have impact on career choices and prospects. We therefore hypothesised that women are underrepresented in portrayals of AI researchers in influential films. We tested this by analysing a corpus of the 142 most influential films featuring AI from 1920 to 2020, of which 86 showed one or more AI resea…
Imagining AI
Art (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 works)