Aruni Kashyap, Madhuri Sastry and Bhakti Shringarpure discuss the rapidly increasing presence of AI which is causing a cognitive vertigo. Love it, hate it, need it or resist it, there is no denying that the pervasive presence of AI in all aspects of life has caused an upheaval. It is easy to denounce the use of AI in technologies of warfare and to rail against the environmentally disastrous AI data centers but when it comes to the worlds of research and creativity, the lines blur rather too quickly. Even as Google or Siri or Alexa are integrated into our lives, is it wrong to have ChapGPT or Claude take our projects a few steps further? How far is too far? Do you even recall consenting to this technology on our phones, cars, homes and computers? At the Radical Books Collective, we are concerned with how AI impacts reading, writing, publishing and pedagogy but more importantly, we want to engage with its moral and ethical dimensions. We may not have answers or solutions but we will ask the right questions.
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Aruni Kashyap is a writer, translator, and academic. He is the author of The Way You Want To Be Loved, The House With a Thousand Stories, and the forthcoming How to Date a Fanatic. He has edited the story collection How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency and is the translator of four novels from Assamese to English. He is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Georgia (Athens).
Madhuri Sastry is a writer and editor with a background in human rights law. She is the Culture Editor at The Polis Project and has written for Bitch Media, Slate, Catapult and Guernica, among several other publications.
Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer, editor and creative director of the Radical Books Collective. She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: From Decolonization to Digital and the forthcoming Leila Aboulela: Writing as Refuge. She produces and hosts the Radical Futures podcast.
