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Sarah Dillon

Project Leader and Senior Research Fellow, October 2018-September 2019

Biography

Sarah Dillon was seconded to LCFI from the Faculty of English for the academic year, October 2018 to September 2019. During this time she was Programme Director of the AI: Narratives and Justice Programme.

Dr Dillon is a University Lecturer in Literature and Film in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.  She is currently preparing two monographs arising out of the AI Narratives research. Listen: Taking Stories Seriously, co-authored with Claire Craig, makes a case for the value of attention to stories, and the importance of understanding their functions and effects, in the context of high-level decision-making and policy-making. Narrative Knowledge: Literature and Artificial Intelligence, investigates the role of literature in artificial intelligence research, addressing how AI researchers are influenced by literature, what direct roles literature plays in AI research, and how AI fiction imagines the role of literature in AI research and development. The book will demonstrate the contribution the study of literature makes to academic and public discussion of the social and ethical implications of AI.
 
Dr Dillon is author of The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory (Bloomsbury 2007) and Deconstruction, Feminism, Film(Edinburgh University Press 2018). She is editor of David Mitchell: Critical Essays (Gylphi 2011), and co-editor of Maggie Gee: Critical Essays (Gylphi 2015) and AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press 2020). She is Chair of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies and General Editor of the book series Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays. Dr Dillon was a 2013 BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and regularly works as a literary broadcaster across BBC Radio 3 and 4.

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