Research grants and projects 2024-2026
‘Imagine Technoscience’ in partnership with Professors Kalindi Vora (Yale) and Nishant Shah (Chinese University of Hong Kong). 2025-2026. Yale-MacMillan.
Generative AI and Confronting Colonial Legacies in the Cultural Heritage Sector. Part of the AI@Cam funded ArCH project (AI for Cultural Heritage), in collaboration with the Scott Polar Research Institute & Polar Museum at the University of Cambridge, and Dr Joel McKim (Birkbeck, University of London).
Guiding the boots on the ground: Advancing ethically informed socio-technical safety of AI systems in the public sector. Systemic Safety Grant, AI Security Institute, Dept of Science, Innovation & Technology. With Brian Sheil (Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge) and Prof Jennifer Schooling (Anglia Ruskin University) February 2025-February 2026.
AI in the Street, a scoping study supported BRAID/UKRI with Dr. Louise Hickman (Cambridge), and PI Prof Noortje Marres (Warwick) and Dr Alex Taylor (Edinburgh) February-September 2024
Publications
Ganesh, M. I. (Forthcoming 2027) The criminal gaze and surveyed thought. The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture. Vol III Digitisations, Transformations, and Futures (Victoria Szabo Ed)
Taylor, A., Marres, N., Phan, T., Barron, D., Gobbo, B., Ganesh, M. I., & Nissen, B. (2026). Reciprocity Deficits: Observing AI in the street with everyday publics. CoDesign, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2026.2697269
Barron, D., Marres, N., Taylor, A., Coldicutt, R., and Ganesh, MI (2025) AI in the street: Lessons from everyday encounters with AI innovation. Careful Industries.
Taylor, A. S., Marres, N., Bunz, M., Phan, T., Ganesh, M. I., Barron, D., … & Soares, L. (2025). Reciprocity Deficits: Observing AI in the street with everyday publics. arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.23342.
Ganesh, MI (2025) Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car. ArtEZ Press.
Hollanek, T and Ganesh, MI (November 2024) Easy wins and low hanging fruit: Blueprints, toolkits, and playbooks to advance diversity and inclusion in AI in J Neves and M Steinberg (Eds) TOD#54 In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround. pp 162-175. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
Ganesh, MI (2024) Epistemic infrastructures of moral decision-making in the ethics of autonomous driving. In C. Borch & J. P. Pardo-Guerra (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197653609.013.37
Ganesh, MI (2023) The ethical apparatus: The material-discursive shaping of ethics, autonomy, and the driverless car. Leuphana University Lüneburg. Published doctoral thesis.
Ganesh, MI and Nyrup, R (2022) Cultural work in ‘AI Ethics and Society’ pedagogy: Some early reflections (link to PDF of paper) At the AI Cultures workshop, Neurips 2022.
Ganesh MI (2022) What is the autonomous vehicle? In Proof of Stake: Claims to Technology. A Book of Organizational Objects by Timon Beyes, Robin Holt, and Claus Pias (Eds) Oxford: Oxford University. Available here.
Ganesh, MI (2022) Between metaphor and meaning: AI and being human. Interactions 29, 5 (September – October 2022), 58–62. https://doi.org/10.1145/3551669
Ganesh MI & Moss E (2022). Resistance and refusal to algorithmic harms: Varieties of ‘knowledge projects.’ Media International Australia. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X221076288
Talat, Z, Blix, H, Valvoda, J, Ganesh, MI, Cotterell, R, Williams, A (2022) A word on machine ethics. A response to Jiang et al. (2021). A rebuttal to Delphi, a natural language processing project to model abilities and limitations of automated moral decision-making.
Ganesh, MI (2020) The ironies of autonomy. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 7, 157 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00646-0
Ganesh MI Dechesne F, Waseem Z (2020) Two computer scientists and a cultural scientist get hit by a driver-less car: A method for situating knowledge in the cross-disciplinary study of F-A-T in machine learning. Conference Proceedings: ACMFAT* ’20: ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, January 27-30, 2020, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1 page. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3351095.3375663 (Translation tutorial)
Ganesh MI (2019) The difference that difference makes, a comment on C. Ernst, J. Schröter, and A. Sudmann, ‘AI and the Imagination to Overcome Difference’, in Spheres: The Spectre of AI, Issue #5. Leuphana University. (Journal comment + guest editing)
Ganesh MI (2017) Entanglement: Machine Learning and Human Ethics in Driverless Car Crashes In APRJA:Machine Research, Vol 6, Issue 1, 2017. CU Andersen & G Cox (Eds). ISSN 2245-7755
Ganesh, MI, Deutsch, J., Schulte, J (2016) Privacy, visibility, anonymity: Dilemmas in tech use by marginalised communities. Making All Voices Count (Eds) Brighton. IDS.
Ganesh MI (2011) Pulp Frictions In Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives on the Law, A Narrain & A Gupta (Eds) , New Delhi, Yoda.
Bhattacharjya M, Ganesh MI (2011) Negotiating intimacy and harm: female internet users in Mumbai, India In Erotics: Sex, rights and the internet. J SM Kee, K Fialova, CG Ramilo (Eds) for the Women’s Rights Program, Association for Progressive Communications.