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From Pygmalion to Companion Robots: Dr. Kanta Dihal on the Oldest Story in AI
Dr Kanta Dihal, Associate Professor in Science Communication at Imperial College London and co-editor of "AI Narratives" and "Imagining AI," joins Andrew Phipps to explore how decades of science fiction, not engineering, shaped our expectations of artificial intelligence.
The conversation covers gendered AI voices and the OpenAI Scarlett Johansson controversy, why AI is so often imagined as white, the long history of companion robots stretching back to the myth of Pygmalion, and how AI development is repeating patterns of colonial data extraction in the Global South. Kanta also discusses the…
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