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Kanta Dihal

@drdihal.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Science Communication, Imperial College London. Associate Fellow, Institute for Technology and Humanity, University of Cambridge. Books: AI Narratives, Imagining AI. 🇳🇱🇸🇷🏳️‍🌈

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Kanta Dihal @drdihal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Does anyone have any idea why my Scrivener tries to summon Chthulhu when I export my book to Word? My manuscript is due today 😭 @scrivenerapp.bsky.social
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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"How can a museum make sense of a topic like AI?" - @sciencemuseum.org.uk Curator of Mathematical Sciences Laura Joy Pieters talks to @anilseth.bsky.social, Arthur Gretton, @drdihal.bsky.social, @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social, and @martahalina.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJg...
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Why Does AI Scare and Seduce Us?
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Kanta Dihal @drdihal.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We're hiring! Teaching Fellow in Science Communication - Digital Media Campaigning (Part-Time): www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... Application deadline 11 December.
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Kanta Dihal @drdihal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The paperback edition of IMAGINING AI is here! I held it for the first time last week, when I was invited to speak at the @wto.org Public Forum in Geneva. Half the price of the hardback one! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Kanta Dihal sitting in a chair on a stage, holding a microphone. In front of her is a table displaying copies of the book Imagining AI.
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Byte sized AI @bytesizedai.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
It's happening. www.newsweek.com/ai-misogyny-... @ainowinstitute.bsky.social @swachter.bsky.social @smw.bsky.social @drdihal.bsky.social
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AI is creating a new gender divide
Laura Bates told Newsweek there will be a "widening gap in terms of women's access to and uptake of new technologies…this will have a devastating impact."
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Kanta Dihal @drdihal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Job alert! We're looking for a part-time teaching fellow to deliver the module ‘Science Communication and Global Justice’ to students on our MSc Science Communication. Details here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... The deadline is 7th July. Do get in touch if you have questions and please share!
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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Dr Kanta Dihal (@drdihal.bsky.social) being warmly introduced by Dr Laura Ludtke (@ladyelectric.bsky.social) before her excellent keynote at #BSLS2025, “A Mythology of AI.”
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Jeremy Cohen @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
@stephenjcave.bsky.social, @drdihal.bsky.social, and Sarah Dillon’s 2020 edited volume, ‘AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines’ examines the prehistory of key concerns of contemporary AI discourse: academic.oup.com/book/36637
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AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
Abstract. This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real artificial intelligence (AI) begins to
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Stephen Cave @stephenjcave.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Fascinating column on the meanings of AI by Gillian Tett in @financialtimes.com this weekend. www.ft.com/content/0926... (Citing @drdihal.bsky.social's and my book *Imagining AI* 🙂🤖 global.oup.com/academic/pro...) @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social
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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is a fantastic introduction: The Whiteness of AI Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The Whiteness of AI - Philosophy & Technology
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 ...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/10/2024
Like, if you're thinking on how technology intersects w/ society, eugenics, race, disability, gender, & sexuality but w/o people like (but not limited to) @gsvoss.bsky.social @drdihal.bsky.social @marika.bsky.social @jaarboss.bsky.social @hypervisible.bsky.social @savasavasava.bsky.social? Fix that.
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Kanta Dihal @drdihal.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Okay, I think I'm officially done with no-longer-Twitter. Happy Ides of March! On to bluer skies.
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