Maya Indira Ganesh is a researcher, educator, and writer who works at the intersection of AI and digital technologies, culture, and society. She is the Associate Director (Research Partnerships) and Assistant Research Professor at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) at the University of Cambridge, UK.
From 2021-2024, Maya was an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) at the university, co-directing the MSt in AI Ethics and Society run jointly between PACE and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
Maya has master’s degrees in Psychology, and in Media and Cultural Studies, and a Drphil in Cultural Studies. Her doctoral work took the case of the ‘ethics of autonomous driving’ to study the implications of ethical decision-making and governance by algorithmic/AI technologies for human social relations. Her monograph based on this thesis, Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car, can be ordered here.
She is also an invited speaker, curatorial advisor, and writer with arts and cultural organisations including Transmediale (2018-2019), AI Anarchies (2022) and Ether’s Bloom (2023). Maya’s public cultural writing has been translated into Korean, Turkish, French, and German. Prior to academia, Maya spent over a decade as a researcher and activist working at the intersection of gender justice, security, and digital freedom of expression at Tactical Tech.
She is part of the newly-formed re:GAIN network that anticipates the challenges of genAI-driven misinformation in the global South; an advisor to the Youth Cultures Digital Lab; and is on the governing board of Arrow, an Asia-Pacific policy research and advocacy organisation championing on sexual health and rights in the region.
Maya has won fellowships and awards from the Media Cultures of Simulation (MECS) Institute for Advanced Study at Leuphana University, Lüneburg (2018), Digital Earth/Hivos (2020), Hivos (2020), the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Histories of AI (2021), and was a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Resident Fellow on AI (2019).
Drop her an email: mayaindira (at) posteo (dot) net ; or find her online at LinkedIN and Instagram.