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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · Jun 12

Can we automate how AI models “understand” (see, know, identify, contrast) “culture” the way humans can? That’s the agenda for today. Slides by Diyi Yang captures some of the challenges and thinking.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · Jun 12

Cut your Indian friends and colleagues some slack today. 😭

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · Jun 12

At #CVPR2025 today at a workshop by folks from Mila Quebec titled VLMs 4All sites.google.com/view/vlms4all
I’ll be posting here from the workshop today
Already I’m so taken by the very open and welcoming space the organisers have created

VLMs-4-All 2025

News 📢

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · Jun 12

Next week in Bremen

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · Jun 7

Ohhh you got tickets to it !!! 🫰

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Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy @mctd.bsky.social · May 23

We hosted a convo with @mayameme.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social to celebrate her new book on ethics, driverless cars, and AI futures. She spoke about agency, design and how we think about new tech, and moral decision-making.

Overview of the convo ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/auto-correct...

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 19

No matter if you can’t come to my book launch event on Thursday in Cambridge; @dmuravyov.bsky.social interviewed me for the Network Cultures blog and we had a really great chat. Great working with you again Dmitry 🙏🏾✨☺️

Dmitry Muravyov @dmuravyov.bsky.social · May 19

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
networkcultures.org/blog/2025/05...

“Irony is an opportunity for ambivalence”: Interview with Maya Indira Ganesh about her Book Auto-Correct

In 2025, ARTez Press published Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car by Maya Indira Ganesh. I talked with Maya about the book — why and how technologies fail

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 19

Omg thank you !! Amazing !

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 15

This is going to be an amazing book!

jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · May 15

"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 15

Great essays by Anna T Pinto error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas... and @tante.cc error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...

Oh Man! — Error 406 Tech Fascism Not Acceptable

An essay on Aggrieved Masculinity, Silicon Valley and the New Far Right by Ana Teixeira Pinto.

error417.expectation.fail

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 15

@bitnik.bsky.social will support projects against Tech Facism. “The proposed artistic projects can be tactical, performative or metaphoric, among others. We are looking for daily acts of resistance, interventions, how-tos”
Full call: error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 13

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

time.com

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 9

Thank you ! 🙏🏾🫶🥹
And to YOU TOO 🙌🏾

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 9

lol wasn’t following u till now

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 9

🙏🏾🥹🙏🏾🥲🙏🏾🫶🙏🏾

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 9

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Georgina Voss (David Cronenberg's Version) @gsvoss.bsky.social · May 9

Gorgeous gorgeous girls write gorgeous gorgeous books about complex technological systems / join us in Cambridge on May 22nd for this! So honored to be @mayameme.bsky.social 's discussant ✨🐋

Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 9

Pls come to my book launch on May 22, 5pm, at Newnham College Cambridge cohosted w @mctd.bsky.social and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social and with stellar discussants @gsvoss.bsky.social and Jennifer Schooling Register here: lu.ma/9vm405sk

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 9

Pls come to my book launch on May 22, 5pm, at Newnham College Cambridge cohosted w @mctd.bsky.social and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social and with stellar discussants @gsvoss.bsky.social and Jennifer Schooling Register here: lu.ma/9vm405sk

Book Launch: Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car · Luma

A conversation with Maya Indira Ganesh on how driverless cars are reshaping governance, responsibility, and values What can a driverless car tell us about…

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Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy @mctd.bsky.social · May 9

What can driverless cars tell us about power, ethics, and the dreams we attach to tech?

Join us and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 22 May for a convo with @mayameme.bsky.social on her new book exploring this question.

Register (free!) ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/book-...

Book Launch: Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car

Join us at Cambridge to celebrate the launch of Maya Indira Ganesh's new book on how driverless cars are reshaping governance, responsibility, and values.

www.mctd.ac.uk

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 9

I mean what is a scarf with pockets

Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · May 9

Sometimes you see someone on the bus wearing something silly and you know they were lured and scammed by an Instagram ad.

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Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social · May 1

"We should not take AI companies’ word for it when they tell us where we are headed. It is up to society and its institutions to steer innovation away from risks and toward benefits."

A great piece with no mention of stakeholders and a shoutout to @mayameme.bsky.social new book Auto-Correct.

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · May 1

Governance can't be automated. My latest comment piece in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Apr 25

Within AI innovation, there's a strong technical idea of AI 'safety' that would love to be able to contain risk and ethical concerns. (@mayameme.bsky.social's excellent new book discusses the fantasy of ethics-by-design)

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Apr 25

But risk, and the governance of risks, is always sociotechnical, as @alondra.bsky.social and @sethlazar.org argue here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

AI safety on whose terms?

Rapid, widespread adoption of the latest large language models has sparked both excitement and concern about advanced artificial intelligence (AI). In response, many are looking to the field of AI saf...

www.science.org

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Apr 10

Nature have picked up our survey. We think it's the largest survey of AI researchers ever conducted. Here's a quick thread on some of the headlines @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Will AI improve your life? Here’s what 4,000 researchers think

Scientists working on artificial intelligence are more confident than the public that the technology will benefit people.

www.nature.com

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · Apr 6

DEI in corporate India survives www.thehindu.com/society/dei-...
“Indian businesses are in such critical need of talent that they must necessarily act to expand their talent pools — something borne out by an uncoordinated but widespread focus on DEI”

India Inc.’s DEI push: Amid Trump’s DEI rollback in the U.S., corporates in India commit to stay true to the diversity and inclusion agenda

DEI specialists in India navigate challenges as U.S. companies scale back programs, while Indian firms lead inclusion efforts.

www.thehindu.com