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March 27, 2021

These tales of AI and its effects on future life

UW News

Artificial Intelligence is making its mark on life around the world, and that phenomenon is captured in the 19 fiction stories gathered in “Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence,”

Together, the 19 stories are meant to ask: “What world — what worlds? — will we build with artificial intelligence?” The stories were written by authors all over the world and edited by a five-member UW team led by Tech Policy Lab co-directors Batya Friedman, Ryan Calo and Tadayoshi Kohno.

Authors of “Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence” are (not in order shown) Dennys Antonialli, InternetLab, Brazil; Chinmayi Arun, National Law University, Delhi, India; Joanna Bryson, University of Bath, England; Darren Byler, UW; Ryan Calo, UW; Jeff Cao, Tencent Research Institute, China; Jack Clark, OpenAI, United States, Batya Friedman, UW; Sue Glueck, Microsoft; Sabine Hauert, University of Bristol, England; Alejandro Hevia, University of Chile; Ian Kerr, University of Ottawa, Canada; Tadayoshi Kohno, UW; Lisa Nathan, University of British Columbia, Canada; Joseph Nkurunziza, Never Again Rwanda, Rwanda; Nnenna Nwakanma, World Wide Web Foundation, Côte d’Ivoire; Amir Rashidi, Center for Human Rights in Iran; Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka; Jeroen van den Hoven, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.

The volume, which is available free in digital format, is intended for policymakers, educators and technologists as well as general readers.