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The digital culture from which our algorithms learn (the artwork and songs and books on which they’re trained) tends to represent a subset of our world’s geographical and cultural perspectives. WEIRD – Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic – cultures are over-represented among the creators and curators of AI. Much less training data exists from literary and cultural artefacts of smaller languages.

It's doubtless that, as an overarching category, Generative AI boasts a versatile range of potential benefits. It can be applied across domains and diverse forms of content. It can enhance creativity, support innovation, assist in content creation, and inspire new ideas and possibilities.

This is not a book of answers. It is a book of questions, questions about what we are to do with AI. What the future might hold and how are we gonna adapt?