We live in a time of shifting paradigms, where writing and literature are being heavily influenced by tools like ChatGPT. What does it mean to be a writer in the modern era? Why do we write and how do we navigate a challenging creative landscape? How do we develop our own creativity against the backdrop of automated art?
Our panel of writers across the arts and sciences discuss their creative processes and their thoughts about emergent technologies like ChatGPT. We ask how writers can advocate for themselves and carve out a voice in the age of AI.
Panel Members
Aifric Campbell is the author of four novels and teaches at Imperial College London. Her latest book, The Love Makers, explores how AI and robotics are transforming the future of human love. Aifric received her PhD from the University of East Anglia.
Julia Bell is a writer and academic. Her recent book-length essay on attention and the internet Radical Attention was named by Ali Smith as one of the 5 books for the next 30 years. Her memoir in verse Hymnal was published by Parthian Books in 2023.
Jack Cooper is a science communicator with a background in biological research. His poetry has been used by The Poetry Society to teach senior school students about cellular migration and metaphor. His debut pamphlet, Break the Nose of Every Beautiful Thing (Doomsday Press), received the Society of Authors’ Eric Gregory Award.
Kanta Dihal is Lecturer in Science Communication at Imperial College London and Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. She is co-editor of the books AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Convenor
Anita Chandran is an associate editor at Nature Communications. She obtained her PhD in Physics from Imperial College London and edits the non-profit literary journal, Tamarind which publishes fiction and non-fiction relating to the interaction between science and society.
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