Maya Indira Ganesh is a researcher, educator, and writer who works at the intersection of AI and digital technologies, culture, and society. As of July 1, 2024, she is the Associate Director (Research Partnerships) and Senior Research Associate 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 ICE and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
Maya has degrees in Psychology, 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, will be available on March 10, 2025 and can be pre-ordered here. Maya’s most recent project, with Louise Hickman and others, is AI in the Street, a project about AI in public and AI’s marginal and expert publics.
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 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.
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), the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Histories of AI (2021), and was a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Resident Fellow on AI (2019).
Drop me a line: mayaindira (at) posteo (dot) net ; I’m @mayameme on Twitter/X, @Mayameme@mastodon.social and @Mayameme.BSky.Social