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A red-toned illustration shows a man's head surrounded by swirling AI icons, with small, mischievous witch-like figures flying around him. The man's expression appears disoriented and fatigued. Below is the text 'AI Am Over The Hype' by Rameez Raja.
'AI Am Over The Hype' by Rameez Raja
Artist contributions to the Better Images of AI library have always served a really important role in relation to fostering Read more
Open Competition to Create More Realistic Stock Images of 'Digital Transformation at Work'
ANNOUNCEMENT Calling all artists and makers! The ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit) and Better Images of AI Read more
A laptopogram displaying a dataset as cloud-like clusters of black blobs on a neutral background. There are three larger collections, almost resembling a map, with some data points leaking out into the negative space. Over this image, is the text ''Through My Eyes Blog Series' in the right top corner in white text in a maroon text box/ Below the image, is the text 'Exploring Complexity in the Data Flock' (bold) 'By Joe Bourne' against a light blue background.
Exploring Complexity in the Data Flock by Joe Bourne
Artist contributions to the Better Images of AI library have always served a really important role in relation to fostering Read more
This image shows an abstract microscopic photograph of a Graphics Processing Unit resembling a satellite image of a big city. The image has been overlayed with a bright blue filter. In the middle of the image is the text, 'Images of AI - Between Fiction and Function' in a white text box with black text. Beneath, in a maroon text box is the author's name in white text.
Images of AI – Between Fiction and Function
“The currently pervasive images of AI make us look somewhere, at the cost of somewhere else.” In this blog post, Read more
At the top there is a Diptych contrasting a whimsical pastel scene with large brown rabbits, a rainbow, and a girl in a red dress on the left, and a grid of numbered superpixels on the right - emphasizing the difference between emotive seeing and analytical interpretation. At the bottom, there is black text which says 'what do i see in ways of seeing' by Zoya Yasmine. In the top right corner, there is text in a maroon text box which says 'through my eyes blog series'.
What Do I See in ‘Ways of Seeing’ by Zoya Yasmine
Artist contributions to the Better Images of AI library have always served a really important role in relation to fostering Read more
At the top, Digital collage featuring a computer monitor with circuit board patterns on the screen. A Navajo woman is seated on the edge of the screen, appearing to stitch or fix the digital landscape with their hands. Blue digital cables extend from the monitor, keyboard, and floor, connecting the image elements. Beneath, there is the text in black, 'Weaved Wires Weaving Me' by Laura Martinez Agudelo'. In the top right corner, there is a text box in maroon with the text in white: 'through my eyes blog series'
'Weaved Wires Weaving Me' by Laura Martinez Agudelo
Artist contributions to the Better Images of AI library have always served an important role to foster understanding and critical Read more
A black-and-white image depicting the early computer, Bombe Machine, during World War II. In the foreground, the shadow of a woman in vintage clothing is cast on a man changing the machine's cable.
Hanna Barakat's image collection & the paradoxes of depicting diversity in AI history
As part of a collaboration between Better Images of AI and Cambridge University's Diversity Fund, Hanna Barakat was commissioned to Read more
An image with the text 'Winners Announced!" at the top in maroon. Below it in slightly lighter purple text it states: 'Reihaneh Golpayegani for Women and AI' and 'Janet Turra for Ground Up and Spat Out'. Their two images are positioned on the image at a slant each in opposite directions. At the bottom, there is a maroon banner with the text 'University Diversity Fund' in white, the CFI logo in white, and the Better Images of AI logo.
Winners of public competition with Cambridge Diversity Fund announced
At the end of 2024, we launched a public competition with Cambridge Diversity Fund calling for images that reclaimed and Read more
Ornage and red picture of people at computer terminals with networks overlaying them
Public Competition for Better Images of (teaching and learning) AI!
Call for images: Reclaiming and Recentering the History of Diversity in AI Education at the University of Cambridge Cambridge and Read more
Press release: New playbook released to enable creation of images of AI using free and open licence digital heritage collections...
LONDON / AMSTERDAM 4th December 2024: As AI continues to make headlines and evolve in ways that impact the general Read more
📚Book Review: Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy  
Drawing on films and documentaries about big data, machine learning and AI, including analysis of the sociological and critical theory Read more
The image features the title "Beneath the Surface: Adrien's Artistic Perspective on Generative AI." The background consists of colourful, pixelated static, creating a visual texture reminiscent of digital noise. In the centre of the image, there's a teal rectangular overlay containing the title in bold, white text.
Beneath the Surface: Adrien’s Artistic Perspective on Generative AI
May 28, 2024 - A conversation with Adrien Limousin - a photographer and visual artist, sheds light on the nuanced Read more
💬 Behind the Image with Yutong from Kingston School of Art
This year, we collaborated with Kingston School of Art to give MA students the task of creating their own better Read more
The image shows a colourful illustration of a story-like scene, with two half star characters performing various tasks. The stars, along with a wizard, are interacting with drawings, magnifying glasses, and magic-like elements. Below that, there is a scene with a fantasy landscape, including a castle and dragon. To the right of the image, text reads: 'Behind the Image with Minyue' and below that, a tagline reads: 'Let AI Become Your Magic Wand' which is the name of Minyue's image submission. The background of the image is light blue.
🪄 Behind the Image with Minyue from Kingston School of Art
This year, we collaborated with Kingston School of Art to give MA students the task of creating their own better Read more
👤 Behind the Image with Ying-Chieh from Kingston School of Art
This year, we collaborated with Kingston School of Art to give MA students the task of creating their own better Read more
An image with a light blue background that reads, 'Let's Collab!' at the top, the word 'Collab' underlined in burgandy. Below that, it says 'Better Images of AI x Kingston School of Art' with 'Kingston School of Art' in teal. Below the text is an illustration of two hands high-fiving, with black sleeves and white hands. Around the hands are burgundy stars.
Better Images of AI's Partnership with Kingston School of Art
This year, we were pleased to partner with Kingston’s School of Art to run an elective for their MA Illustration, Read more
Visuals of AI in the Military Domain: Beyond ‘Killer Robots’ and towards Better Images?
In this blog post, Anna Nadibaidze explores the main themes found across common visuals of AI in the military domain. Read more
Better Images of AI's Student Stewards
Better Images of AI is delighted to be working with Cambridge University’s AI Ethics Society to create a community of Read more
Seventeen multicoloured post-it notes are roughly positioned in a strip shape on a white board. Each one of them has a hand drawn sketch in pen on them, answering the prompt on one of the post-it notes "AI is...." The sketches are all very different, some are patterns representing data, some are cartoons, some show drawings of things like data centres, or stick figure drawings of the people involved.
How not to communicate about AI in education
Camila Leporace – journalist, researcher, and PhD in Education – argues that innovation may not be in artificial intelligence (AI) Read more
Marika Jonsson's book cover; a simple yellow cover with the title (in Swedish): "En bok om AI"
Better images of AI can support AI literacy for more people
Marika Jonsson, doctoral student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, reflects on overcoming the challenge of developing an Easy Read Read more
Yasmine Boudiaf (left) and Tamsin Nooney (right) deliver a talk during the workshop ‘Co-creating Better Images of AI’
Co-creating Better Images of AI
In July, 2023, Science Gallery London and the London Office of Technology and Innovation co-hosted a workshop helping Londoners think Read more
A new Better Image of AI – every day for November. Visit the free image library throughout November to see a range of new images from exciting artists. 30 New Images in 30 Days!
A new Better Image of AI – every day for November
Announcing 30 New Images in 30 Days - one new image being added to the Better Images of AI Library Read more
A! x Design Open call poster - We now invite Artists from EU and affiliated countries to join the Open Call
Open Call for Artists | Apply by 25th September
We and AI have teamed up with AIxDesign to commission three artists to encourage a better understanding of AI. Thanks Read more
A person with their hands on a laptop keyboard is looking at something happening over their screen with a worried expression. They are white, have shoulder length dark hair and wear a green t-shirt. The overall image is illustrated in a warm, sketchy, cartoon style. Floating in front of the person are three small green illustrations representing different industries, which is what they are looking at. On the left is a hospital building, in the middle is a bus, and on the right is a siren with small lines coming off it to indicate that it is flashing or making noise. Between the person and the images representing industries is a small character representing artificial intelligence made of lines and circles in green and red (like nodes and edges on a graph) who is standing with its ‘arms’ and ‘legs’ stretched out, and two antenna sticking up. A similar patten of nodes and edges is on the laptop screen in front of the person, as though the character has jumped out of their screen. The overall image makes it look as though the person is worried the AI character might approach and interfere with one of the industry icons.
Illustrating Data Hazards
We are delighted to start releasing some useful new images donated by the Data Hazards project into our free image Read more
Some screenshots of the new Better Images of AI Guide fr Users and Creators
Launch of a Guide for Users and Creators of Images of AI
On 24 January, the Better Images of AI project launched a Guide for Users and Creators of images of AI Read more
Selection of Post-It notes representing childrens views of AI
What do children think AI looks like?
The BBC Research and Development team asked hundreds of children this question as part of their Get Curious event at Read more
LCFI Research Project l FINAL WORKSHOPS ANNOUNCED! Calling all journalists, AI practitioners, communicators and creatives! (Event poster in Better Images of AI blue and purple colours, with logos)
Three new Better Images of AI research workshops announced
Three new workshops have been announced in September and October by the Better Images of AI project team. We will Read more
Silicon block on a plain black background
Illustrating the Materiality of AI
The physical materials involved in artificially intelligent systems are all-too-frequently absent from discussions of AI itself. By picturing the physicality Read more
Dreaming Beyond AI
Dreaming Beyond AI is a multi-disciplinary and collaborative web-based project bringing together artists, researchers, activists, and policymakers to create new Read more
Woman to the left, jumbled up letters entering her ear
Images Matter!
You often hear the phrase “words matter”: words help us to make sense of the world around us. Yet, in Read more
Two digitally illustrated green playing cards on a white background, with the letters A and I in capitals and lowercase calligraphy over modified photographs of human mouths in profile.
Handmade, Remade, Unmade A.I.
Alina’s image, Handmade A.I. was one of the first additions to the Better Images of AI repository. This blog explores Read more
AI generated image of a coffee cup, with 'AI' written on the top
AIHub: An Intro to Better Images of AI
The AIHub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a short conversation. As a Founding Supporter of Better Read more
A window of three images. On the right is a photo of a big tree in a green field in a field of grass and a bright blue sky. The two on the left are simplifications created based on a decision tree algorithm. The work illustrates a popular type of machine learning model: the decision tree. Decision trees work by splitting the population into ever smaller segments. I try to give people an intuitive understanding of the algorithm. I also want to show that models are simplifications of reality, but can still be useful, or in this case visually pleasing. To create this I trained a model to predict pixel colour values, based on an original photograph of a tree.
Branching Out: Understanding an Algorithm at a Glance
Rens Dimmendaal, Principal Data Scientist at GoDataDriven, discusses with Better Images of AI the need to cut through the unnecessary Read more
A photographic rendering of a simulated middle-aged white woman against a black background, seen through a refractive glass grid and overlaid with a distorted diagram of a neural network.
AI, Narratives, Sound and Equality
Based on an interview with Spencer Collins, expert Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor, exploring his perspective on the importance of Read more
An illustration of three „pixelated“ cupboards next to each other with open drawers, the right one is black
Buzzword Buzzkill: Excitement & Overstatement in Tech Communications
A piece always needs an image. With the fast pace environment of the newsroom, limited budget and a general lack Read more
Humans (back) in the Loop
Pictures of Artificial Intelligence often remove the human side of the technology completely, removing all traces of human agency. Better Read more
Two pencil drawn 1960s style towy robots being scribbled out by a pencil on a pale blue background
Avoiding toy robots: Redrawing visual shorthand for technical audiences
Visually describing AI technologies is not just about reaching out to the general public, it also means getting things marketing Read more
An abstract illustration with fluid words spelling Data, Oil, Fluid and Leak
Why Metaphors matter: How we’re misinforming our children about data
Data as a fluid, data streams, data flows, data leaks. Data as a resource, data is the new oil, mining Read more
An abstract image containing stylized black cubes and a half-transparent veil infront of a night street scene
From Black Box to Algorithmic Veil: Why the image of the black box is harmful to the regulation of AI
The black box narrative was originally intended as a ‘wake-up call’ to direct our attention towards certain risks of algorithmic Read more
A human hand touching a glossy round surface with cloudy blue texture that resembles a globe
How do blind people imagine AI? An interview with programmer Florian Beijers
Note: We acknowledge that there is no one way of being blind and no one way of imagining AI as Read more