AI_ANXIETY: Zine Publication

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We are very happy to share the outcomes of the workshop about the AI research agenda in the humanities, arts, and social sciences

"How to live well with robots?"—this was the central question we continually posed to students in our Robots & Society course over the past two years. In a new paper, we reflect on our experience and outcomes of redesigning the course! sefi-jeea.org/index.php/se...

Are there any texts about the cybernetics' ghostly presence in contemporary studies of technology? Not about how cybernetics did (not) influence something, but rather something akin to broad reflections on whether and in what ways/where/how cybernetics' history can be said to matter

In terms of changing use of different terms, it's interesting how the distinction between weak and strong AI seems to gradually go out of fashion

When someone publishes an article closely related to something I am currently working on, I vividly feel the presence of the World Spirit

No wonder you broke down, dear Gemini. That's a lot of expectations you carry on your shoulders.

I decided to try out the Gemini Deep Research mode and accidentally "broke it down". I deeply appreciated though how poetic this breakdown is; there is only "the whole lot of nothing" at the end.

Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.

Also, the link to the book! Buy it, it's great artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...

I had a great time talking with @mayameme.bsky.social about her new book! So much fun thinking about failures, ethics & design, and technological critique—hope that others also find it interesting
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Today I did not feel like writing the actual thesis, so I decided to try to put together some things I learned about my topic in the form of a manifesto with theses. quite liberating, highly recommend

one day I fill find a way for my technical university to pay for new left review subscription

Congrats, Blair! 🥳

Approximately 6 years after I went to a summer school in Pisa, the university decided it's time to deactivate my account. Italians never hurry and I respect that

Springer's system of having many journals with different author/reviewer log-ins sometimes drives me insane because the browser's password manager isn't really helpful with it; so, loggining in each time has to be this whole thing

Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!

"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"

It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓

Thinking about how to better forefront other zine authors on my ZineBakery.com homepage. I added a small thing: "including by authors random-specific-author-name-x, -y, -z, to name a few" to the top text's "[catalog collecting] zines by many folks" (code pulls catalog's CSV+randomizes display) +

Call for registration

Research, Values, and Intervention: Navigating AI and Technomoral Futures
An Empirical Ethics Workshop with Shannon Vallor and Sabina Leonelli

📅 22 May 2025, 10-15:00, 📍 IAS, UvA

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On April 24th, we at TU Delft strike against the proposed budget cuts on higher education in the Netherlands.

In plaats van een ‘bezuiniging’ zie ik het liever als een ‘detox’, bedoeld om de instellingen beter te laten aansluiten bij de innovatieve ‘democratie light’ die het kabinet voor ogen heeft.

Harding's Objectivity and Diversity was such a precise description of how and why we can think of objectivity differently, nuanced yet also such a crisp text. Such a loss for so many academic communities.

I am in awe of this game about biometric surveillance industry in which you buy software, hardware and data infrastructure (which heats up unless cooled down) in a never-ending quest to label faces for profit-driven expansion. I highly recommend playing FACEMINER.
wristwork.itch.io/faceminer

🎉 New article out in AI & Society!

🔍 My article challenges the idea that algorithms replace human judgment. Instead, they mediate the human-world relations in which judgments and self-reflection arise.

💬 Happy to discuss!

Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It took me a while, but super curious to see how this platform works. it's been some time since I tried a new one!