Maya Indira Ganesh is Associate Director (Research Partnerships) and Assistant Research Professor at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) at the University of Cambridge. She is a media and cultural studies scholar of the internet, data, and AI, drawing on varied theoretical and methodological genres including feminist theories, narrative analysis, participatory making-and-doing, and science and technology studies. Recent projects like AI in the Street, sociotechnical safety research in the UK public sector, and AI for Cultural Heritagedraw attention to implications of AI in public spaces and institutions. From 2021-2024, she was an Assistant Teaching Professor co-developing and co-directing the university’s first master’s program in AI, Ethics & Society. Prior to academia, Maya spent over a decade as a researcher and information-activist working in India, Southeast Asia, Sub Saharan Africa, and Europe on gender and digital freedom of speech and expression. Maya is the author ofAuto-correct: The fantasies and failures of AI, ethics, and the driverless car (ArtEz Press, 2025) and co-editor of AI Anarchies (with Clara Hermann and Elise M Hunchuk; Akademie der Kunste, 2024). She is an invited speaker, curatorial advisor, and essayist writing about embodied life and culture under automation.
