In 2018, as part of Data as Relation, I was the lead author on a paper called “A Bestiary of Digital Monsters“. In 2022, in collaboration with Nina Hallowell at Oxford University, I’ll be convening a series of workshops and public engagement activities around AI and the monstrous.

Thanks to the TORCH Centre at Oxford Univesrity, we’ll be able to bring together humanities scholars and those researching AI in practice.

A summary of the project is below, and you can read more here.

Teams of Oxford researchers who work on AI from various perspectives (for example, those who create AI-based computer programs, or who look at ethical and social implications of introducing AI in society) and monster studies will create the bestiary during a facilitated workshop. In addition to identifying AI beasts, or areas of AI that are in need of governance, these researchers will develop a series of collages that represent the AI beasts that they have imagined. An artist will facilitate this workshop. This collection of AI beasts will be used as the basis of a public exhibition in the Oxford IF festival. The exhibition will also form the backdrop for a public engagement activity in the festival – the make your own AI beast workshop