Jun 10, 2024
Senior Research Fellows Dr. Eleanor Drage and Dr. Kerry McInerney share their insights on how artificial intelligence will impact society, using a feminist lens to rethink innovation and the importance of language in shaping our understanding of ‘good’ technology.
Dr Eleanor Drage is a
Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for
the Future of Intelligence. She teaches AI Professionals about AI
ethics at Cambridge and presents widely on the topic. She
specialises in using feminist ideas to make AI better and safer for
everyone. She is currently building the world's first free and open
access tool that helps companies meet the EU AI act's obligations.
Eleanor is also an expert on women writers of speculative and
science fiction from 1666 to the present - An Experience of the
Impossible: The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science
Fiction.
Dr Kerry McInerney (née Mackereth) is a Senior
Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of
Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, where she co-leads a
project on how AI is impacting international relations. Aside from
The Good Robot, Kerry is the co-editor of the collection Feminist
AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent
Machines (2023, Oxford University Press) and the co-author of the
forthcoming book Reprogram: Why Big Tech is Broken and How Feminism
Can Fix It (2026, Princeton University Press).
This episode was recorded in front of a live audience for an event in partnership with SPACE4.
ABOUT THE HOST
Luke Robert Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments.
He hosts documentaries for Futurism, and has contributed to BBC Radio, BBC One, The Guardian, Discovery Channel, VICE Motherboard and Wired Magazine.
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Producer & Host: Luke Robert Mason
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