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Better
Metaphors
of AI


Presentations

Videos Author(s)Minutes


Introduction to Better Metaphors of AI

Andres Colmenares
MDRAI director

10 min


AI as superintelligence or a set of powerful binoculars?



Kiril Traykov
Iris Latour

20 min


AI as a headlamp 



Roberto Roque
Adam Barry

23 min



Retiring the shiny robot



Diana Messina
Jessica Eide

25 min




Essays



Title Author(s)Pages
“AI Cooler Than BI (Billy Idol)?“

Roberto Roque

   

6


AI, how human are you?

Diana Messina
Kiril Traykov

7


How the Black Box Metaphor shapes our perception of AI and how we should imagine otherwise


Diana Messina

4
Interpreting Life in AI Time: Synthetic Time, Anthropomorphism, and the Question of What We Want

Iris Latour
Roberto Roque

4


Metaphors in AI: Examining the language used by mathematics professors

Kiril Traykov

9


Metaphors of AI: Your Personal AI Assistant

Jessica Eide

5


On Anthropomorphising AI and the Worldview We Are Designing Through It

Adam Barry

13


Rethinking AI Through Social, Ethical, and Human Lenses

Adam Barry
Jessica Eide

7


The voice of the collective, the great combinator


Iris Latour

6




“AI is neither artificial nor intelligent“ – Kate Crawford, researcher, writer and academic. Author of Atlas of AI




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