DrKanta Dihal
Associate Professor in Science Communication
Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication - Central Faculty
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- Associate Professor in Science CommunicationCentre for Languages, Culture and Communication - Central Faculty
RESEARCH
Artificial intelligence
From 2017-2023, I worked at the University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, focusing on the public communication of artificial intelligence (AI).
I was Principal Investigator on the project Global AI Narratives from 2018-2022, in which I explored intercultural public understanding of artificial intelligence as constructed by fictional and nonfictional narratives.
This work led to two edited collections: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2023). I also co-authored a series of papers on AI narratives with Dr Stephen Cave, including ‘The Whiteness of AI’ (Philosophy and Technology, 2020).
Quantum physics
In 2018, I obtained my PhD in science communication from the University of Oxford. In my thesis, ‘The Stories of Quantum Physics,’ I investigated the communication of conflicting interpretations of quantum physics to adults and children. I am currently working on turning this research into a monograph called Stories in Superposition.
From 2017-2023, I worked at the University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, focusing on the public communication of artificial intelligence (AI).
I was Principal Investigator on the project Global AI Narratives from 2018-2022, in which I explored intercultural public understanding of artificial intelligence as constructed by fictional and nonfictional narratives.
This work led to two edited collections: AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2023). I also co-authored a series of papers on AI narratives with Dr Stephen Cave, including ‘The Whiteness of AI’ (Philosophy and Technology, 2020).
Quantum physics
In 2018, I obtained my PhD in science communication from the University of Oxford. In my thesis, ‘The Stories of Quantum Physics,’ I investigated the communication of conflicting interpretations of quantum physics to adults and children. I am currently working on turning this research into a monograph called Stories in Superposition.