Mark your calendars: @uvalaw.bsky.social will be hosting a book celebration and panel discussing @monasloane.bsky.social’s brilliant new book Predicted with special guests @ariezra.bsky.social and Jenny Davis on Sept 10.

🎉 PREDICTED: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life is OUT w/@ucpress.bsky.social: lnkd.in/e7jGnZ9b. I wrote this book to cut through the noise. I want people to walk away with understanding #AI's social roots—not the hype, not the panic—to democratically shape #futures. That's what PREDICTED is for.

Go to one colleague’s book talk and come away with another’s book! Just out from @monasloane.bsky.social with California (first in a new series there she also edits), looks to me like 🔥.

From @monasloane.bsky.social and colleagues: "Students, Power, and Technology” and a call for positioning students as co-governors through Student Technology Councils to "advise faculty and administrators on technology procurement, innovation, and governance.” Article at: btlj.org/wp-content/u...

This was a really fun seminar I did recently on AI and insurance, hosted by my dear friend @monasloane.bsky.social, and alongside the excellent insurtech scholar Laurence Barry. Such an interesting discussion! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqA6...

Co Opting AI: Insurance

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🎤 Join us on 4/15, 4pm ET (via Zoom), for Co-Opting #AI #Geopolitics! I will talk about AI and national security, to global political economy, ethical dimensions, and diplomacy with Chinasa T. Okolo, Ph.D., Pablo Chavez, and Nick Srnicek. Free sign-up here: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

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Join @monasloane.bsky.social, Owen Kitzmann, and Celia Calhoun for the fourth talk in The Ethical Dimension of AI Literacy series with @uvalibrary.bsky.social on Wednesday, April 8 💻

Students at the Table: Building a Student Technology Council at UVA (The Ethical Dimension of AI Literacy Series)

Join us for the fourth talk in The Ethical Dimension of AI Literacy series. In this session, Mona Sloane, Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies and founder of...

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On March 25 from 4 to 5:15 PM EST, Co-Opting AI: Insurance brings together Laurence Barry and Jathan Sadowski to examine the entanglement of AI, risk individualization, and the insurance industry. Hosted by @monasloane.bsky.social Register for this virtual event here: https://bit.ly/3Op4Atx

🎙️ 🎉 Excited to announce that my book PREDICTED: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life is available for pre-order with UC Press: lnkd.in/evTZVN4b. MASSIVE THANKS to Michelle Lipinski and Julian Nowogrodzki as well as Eric Klinenberg, Lucy Suchman, Allison Pugh, and Craig Calhoun for their reviews 🙏

Associate Professor of Data Science and Media Studies @monasloane.bsky.social spoke with @natsensors.nature.com about AI and the rise of intelligent sensing. Read more here: https://go.nature.com/4bUndPC

Co-Opting #AI is back in 2026! We're starting the season with a conversation on #KIDS, feat. three eminent thinkers and doers in the space: Sonia Livingstone, Ashleigh Greene Wade, and Annabel Blake! Join us for free on February 11, 4pm ET, via Zoom, sign-up here: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

Answering a question about AI disruption, @monasloane.bsky.social points out how her students are struggling on the job market right now. They're the ones sending out hundreds of resumes, which is another reason to listen to them about AI.

More findings from @monasloane.bsky.social: Student participation in university administration has declined over the last 30 years. Students are "digital natives" and "AI experts in their own right." [I have issues with those claims.] We need their voices in these discussions. [Hear, hear.]

Now @monasloane.bsky.social is pivoting to teaching and students. "We are all AI experts now," she wrote here: medium.com/@monasloane/.... That is, students are actively exploring and gaining expertise in how to use AI in their studies.

We Are All AI Experts Now

The social impact of AI is real. We need to understand the everyday use of AI to get a better picture of how we can prevent AI harm.

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Keynote: @monasloane.bsky.social says AI is a scaling technology, a social infrastructure (just there, like electrical infrastructure), a material culture, a valuation practice (changing the social status of jobs), and AI is power.

Excited to be helping facilitate the virtual track at the Virginia AI Symposium today! UVA's @monasloane.bsky.social is our keynote this morning for those on-site and about 150 of us on the livestream.

I spoke with Andy Extance for Nature Sensors about #privacy and #sensing and how #AI could help with local #data processing to address privacy much earlier in the pipeline: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

AI and the rise of intelligent sensing - Nature Sensors

From wearable health monitors to autonomous robots, AI is reshaping how sensors collect, interpret, and act on data, with co-design and benchmarking key to their success, finds Andy Extance.

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Thank you for the kind words, @sistek.bsky.social! Our next conversation is on #AI and #kids, sign-up here: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

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Hanna Sistek@sistek.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Discovering this amazing podcast series www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8zp... put on by @monasloane.bsky.social - this one on the impact of AI on libraries, with @ericklinenberg.bsky.social among others. Interesting insights into how much we've invested into digital spaces rather than physical ones.

🚀 Special Issue Alert: @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce our Social Science Computer Review Special Issue What Is Sociological About AI? All articles: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec.... This special issue calls for the rise of sociology as a leading force in AI research.

If you missed yesterday's Co-Opting #AI event on #libraries with Eric Klinenberg, Shauntee Burns-Simpson and Peter Musser, fear not -- you can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8zp...

Co-Opting AI: Libraries

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Happening tomorrow is Co-Opting #AI: #Libraries! Free sign up here: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

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Join panelists, Shauntee Burns-Simpson, director of youth and family services at the District of Columbia Public Library, Eric Klinenberg, director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York Un...

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Mona Sloane@monasloane.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NEXT WEEK: a conversation on #AI and #libraries! Honored to host @ericklinenberg.bsky.social, Shauntee Burns-Simpson and Peter Musser on Nov 19, 4pm ET for a chat about how AI reshapes libraries as places of learning and being together. FREE SIGN UP: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

NEXT WEEK: a conversation on #AI and #libraries! Honored to host @ericklinenberg.bsky.social, Shauntee Burns-Simpson and Peter Musser on Nov 19, 4pm ET for a chat about how AI reshapes libraries as places of learning and being together. FREE SIGN UP: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

NEXT WEEK: a conversation on #AI and #libraries! Honored to host @ericklinenberg.bsky.social, Shauntee Burns-Simpson and Peter Musser on Nov 19, 4pm ET for a chat about how AI reshapes libraries as places of learning and being together. FREE SIGN UP: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

AI is reshaping how people get hired. The TARAI Index from @monasloane.bsky.social and @ellens.bsky.social makes these systems visible, mapping 100+ recruiting tools that use AI to rank and evaluate candidates. Explore the public database: www.tarai.org Read more: bit.ly/4nO1MCo

‼️ AI shapes how people get hired—but how much do we know about those tools? 🎤 We’ve launched the TARAI Index, a public database mapping AI use in 100+ recruiting technologies. 🤓 It helps practitioners and researchers explore how AI really works in hiring 👉 www.tarai.org

@monasloane.bsky.social in conversation with tech journalist and author @karenhao.bsky.social Photography by Hoowithaview Read more here: https://bit.ly/43JiStE

It was an honor to share a stage with the incredible @karenhao.bsky.social last week for a conversation with Seth Lewis about the Empire of AI with remarks from Dean Acampora. More here: lnkd.in/eeFCvtZW (Photo credit: Hoowithaview, Charlottesville, VA)

Today at 4pm, join us!

@ertruitt.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Register for this great event—I’m delighted to be a part of it.

Please join us on 10/22 for a new Co-Opting #AI episode on #antiquity! I am thrilled to be in conversation with Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, Kevin Donnelly, and Elly R. Truitt to explore ancient concepts of automation, intelligent machines, gods and robots. dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/co-opt...

Co-Opting AI: Antiquity - DTD Lab

Join panelists, Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, John L. Nau III assistant professor of classics at the University of Virginia, Kevin Donnelly, professor of history at Alvernia University, Elly R. Truitt, ...

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🎙️ New work out with Charity Nyelele, Antonios Mamalakis and Ava Birdwell, alongside many experts! Read our new report on Broadening Access to Climate AI Innovation -- let's include local knowledge holders in AI innovation for extreme weather forecasting! libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...