Does anyone have any idea why my Scrivener tries to summon Chthulhu when I export my book to Word? My manuscript is due today 😭 @scrivenerapp.bsky.social

"How can a museum make sense of a topic like AI?" - @sciencemuseum.org.uk Curator of Mathematical Sciences Laura Joy Pieters talks to @anilseth.bsky.social, Arthur Gretton, @drdihal.bsky.social, @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social, and @martahalina.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgJg...

Why Does AI Scare and Seduce Us?

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We're hiring! Teaching Fellow in Science Communication - Digital Media Campaigning (Part-Time): www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... Application deadline 11 December.

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The paperback edition of IMAGINING AI is here! I held it for the first time last week, when I was invited to speak at the @wto.org Public Forum in Geneva. Half the price of the hardback one! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

It's happening. www.newsweek.com/ai-misogyny-... @ainowinstitute.bsky.social @swachter.bsky.social @smw.bsky.social @drdihal.bsky.social

AI is creating a new gender divide

Laura Bates told Newsweek there will be a "widening gap in terms of women's access to and uptake of new technologies…this will have a devastating impact."

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Job alert! We're looking for a part-time teaching fellow to deliver the module ‘Science Communication and Global Justice’ to students on our MSc Science Communication. Details here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... The deadline is 7th July. Do get in touch if you have questions and please share!

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Dr Kanta Dihal (@drdihal.bsky.social) being warmly introduced by Dr Laura Ludtke (@ladyelectric.bsky.social) before her excellent keynote at #BSLS2025, “A Mythology of AI.”

@stephenjcave.bsky.social, @drdihal.bsky.social, and Sarah Dillon’s 2020 edited volume, ‘AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines’ examines the prehistory of key concerns of contemporary AI discourse: academic.oup.com/book/36637

AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines

Abstract. This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real artificial intelligence (AI) begins to

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Fascinating column on the meanings of AI by Gillian Tett in @financialtimes.com this weekend. www.ft.com/content/0926... (Citing @drdihal.bsky.social's and my book *Imagining AI* 🙂🤖 global.oup.com/academic/pro...) @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social

This is a fantastic introduction: The Whiteness of AI Stephen Cave and Kanta Dihal link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Whiteness of AI - Philosophy & Technology

This paper focuses on the fact that AI is predominantly portrayed as white—in colour, ethnicity, or both. We first illustrate the prevalent Whiteness of real and imagined intelligent machines in four ...

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Like, if you're thinking on how technology intersects w/ society, eugenics, race, disability, gender, & sexuality but w/o people like (but not limited to) @gsvoss.bsky.social @drdihal.bsky.social @marika.bsky.social @jaarboss.bsky.social @hypervisible.bsky.social @savasavasava.bsky.social? Fix that.

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · 2y ago

A reason I keep telling you to read all you can by @cyborgapologist.bsky.social @shengokai.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @mrvi.cold-albion.net & others is some people are doing truly crucial, groundbreaking work on intersections of tech, embodiment, & society & are absolutely not getting their due.

Okay, I think I'm officially done with no-longer-Twitter. Happy Ides of March! On to bluer skies.