Hannah Silva

Hannah Silva is a writer and performer at the vanguard of innovative and interdisciplinary research into the creative potential and implications of generative AI. Silva has been working with technology as a creative tool for two decades and has an international reputation as a sound poet. ‘Talk in a bit’ (Humankind Records) was included in the Wire’s Top 25 Albums of 2018. ‘An Artificially Intelligent Guide to Love’ for BBC Radio 4 starred Fiona Shaw and was the starting point for My Child, the Algorithm, a memoir on queer parenting and love written in conversation with a GPT algorithm and a toddler. Silva has authored seven other plays for BBC Radio 3 and 4, won the Tinniswood Award for best script and numerous placements in the BBC Audio Drama Awards. Silva holds a PhD in the analysis of poetry in performance and is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University. She/they.