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Our first AI Futures Keynote lecture is now available online. See here. The first keynote was delivered by Prof. Jack Stilgoe (UCL) on 17th February 2026. Title: ‘Implications and Inferences: Rethinking Responsible Innovation in AI. Abstract: The scale and speed of AI’s development challenge social scientists’ capacity to make sense of...
AI Futures Seminar Series The Planetary AI project hosts the AI Futures seminar series, that centres discussions on alternative visions and technofutures for more just and equal worlds. The series will engage with leading thinkers for conversations on developing visions for radically different futures. The seminars are open to all,...
Across the higher education sector, research and teaching staff are increasingly contending with shifting funding landscape, engaging with multiple disciplines, publishing cross-disciplinary research, and uncertainty about potential career pathways. Against this backdrop of significant changes, how might scholars, particularly at early stages of their academic careers, respond to these changes...
By Beatrice Bonami Whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be decolonial is a question that may never have a definitive answer. It echoes a broader dilemma: can former imperial powers truly be decolonial while still benefiting – politically, economically, and socially – from the empire structures created? So far, what we know about AI suggests...
📣 We are launching the Planetary AI Keynote Series titled ‘AI Futures’. This series is designed for us to discuss risks and opportunities of AI, AI governance, and most importantly radical ways of organising our economies and societies in the future. Our world does not have to be determined and...
by Beatrice Bonami Can inclusion be insidious? Can it be proclaimed openly while remaining hollow in practice? According to Ruha Benjamin, the answer is yes – and technology may be one of the most effective means to be insidious. As Prof. Benjamin argues, technological discourse often presents itself as universally...