Cut your Indian friends and colleagues some slack today. 😭

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

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Next week in Bremen

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...

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 · last yr.

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...

This is going to be an amazing book!

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg.bsky.social · last yr.

"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...

@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...

"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.

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🥹😘🫶

Georgina Voss@gsvoss.bsky.social · last yr.

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 ✨🐋

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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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.

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

"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 · last yr.

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

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)

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...

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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.

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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.

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The UK AISI is doing something very interesting with their societal resilience grants program by (re)framing AI safety as a societal issue and by supporting research from a number of sectors that have a deep understanding of safety. I’m thrilled to be a new grantee www.aisi.gov.uk/work/strengt...

Strengthening AI Resilience | AISI Work

20 Systemic Safety Grant Awardees Announced

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I just got copies of my first book 🥹

I’m sad to hear about the passing of Jonathan Sterne. I was on a panel with him once during the pandemic and felt I had achieved something important by virtue of digital proximity 😅 To those who didn’t know his work, this post from Duke will lead you to discover this stellar media theorist.

Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad. Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...

They assure me it’s real and happening somewhere in a press in the Netherlands. Thank you to so many of you who pre-ordered. It’s coming! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...

Delighted and honored to be with @thaophan.bsky.social in meatspace and @zentralwerkstatt.org virtually next week at Goldsmiths to share something quite different for the first time

Thao Phan@thaophan.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello UK friends! I'm giving a few talks in the flesh over the coming weeks. If you're in London, come to this talk at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w @mayameme.bsky.social as part of the Goldsmiths Visual Cultures seminar series Thursday 27 March, 5 - 7pm www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Perfecting the right kind of grovelling tone for a FAcCT rebuttal is quite a task when you’re simultaneously trying to write a grant proposal about how awesome and urgent your future work will be

Yay our paper got accepted so maybe I’ll be @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle this year -bc I already have US visa. Thanks for nothing, Europe: Sad to have missed 4S /Easst last year. *There are still no Schengen appointments available*

VFS sucks Trying to apply for a Schengen for May-June and there are no appointments ..

So great to see this come out. At @digitalwitnesslab.org we were shocked by how easy it was to illegally purchase firearms on WhatsApp, the platform isn't even doing the bare minimum it could to prevent this. Heres the story from @restofworld.org bsky.app/profile/rest...

Rest of World@restofworld.org · last yr.

WhatsApp is a thriving illegal firearms marketplace in India, an analysis of 8,000 messages shows. “I am not afraid, that’s why I am doing this business,” said one of the gun dealers. “I have strength, and I have guts.” Full story: restofworld.org/2025/whatsap...

Harry Law’s latest newsletter argues that ‘Ai slop must flow’ as necessarily part of how technolgoies get from bad to better learningfromexamples.com/p/the-slop-mus… I know Harry thru work. I read his newsletter fairly consistently and tagged him in the original post. cc @zentralwerkstatt.org

Why are 18 in every 100 Germans voting for the AfD? Has there been a study ?

This on @lawhsw newsletter arrived and instantly bothered me: learningfromexamples.com/p/the-slop-mus… I write a long thread on X about why.Hope it comes out with the right tone!

Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI

Guardian Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with Open AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and deployment, that will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s globa...

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