New Generation Thinkers

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The Essay: New Generation Thinkers 2023: From algorithms to oceans

From algorithms to oceans

New Generation Thinkers 2023

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Kerry McInerney explores the promises of the ‘sustainable AI’ movement and how AI develops

Pollution, energy use and AI are explored in New Generation Thinker Kerry McInerney's Essay about the "sustainable AI" movement and insights from indigenous thinkers

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

The Essay: New Generation Thinkers 2023

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The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers stretch their broadcasting wings.

The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers, the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Council which turns research into radio, stretch their broadcasting wings.

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