From algorithms to oceans

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4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Can I just say?
0:01.5	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:04.0	It's such a wonderful listen.
0:05.6	So nice.
0:06.5	There are loads more like it on BBC sounds.
0:08.8	Different paces, different heights.
0:10.6	The roof is buckling.
0:11.9	Where you can also listen to live sports commentary.
0:14.2	It's right foot goes for goal.
0:16.7	And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.
0:21.7	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:25.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:26.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:29.7	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:34.8	Hello, I'm Kerry McEnany from the University of Cambridge's Levehume Center for the Future of Intelligence.
0:41.8	I'm an AI ethicist and my research explores how new technologies shape politics and society.
0:48.5	I'm also a new generation thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council
0:55.7	to share new academic research. In this episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast, I'll be reading
1:03.0	an essay I've written called From Algorithms to Oceans. In it, I explore the promises of the
1:10.0	sustainable AI movement, and I draw on my experience of living on a boat for two years to understand what it would mean for AI to be truly sustainable.
1:21.4	After being at sea for weeks, you experience a curious phenomenon called land sickness.
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