On May 21 I will be giving the NCRM Annual Lecture. Topic: the automation of method and the future of situational analysis. Delighted that Carrie Friese (LSE) & Rachel Coldicutt will act as commentators! ncrm.ac.uk/training/lectu…

Terrible news from Sociology, Goldsmiths about possible cuts of 130 jobs across the college. So many layers of failure of academic governance lie behind it. Our brilliant colleagues in this and other departments are bearing the brunt of these failures.

'AI already is deeply participatory since AI is—by design—only possible through data production by ordinary technology users and their continuous optimization of AI systems.' Dr. Mona Sloane in Big Data & Society on why so many scripted forms of participation in AI are exploitative: do not…

Read new commentary by Noortje Marres @[email protected] on the persistent problem with explanation within the Social Sciences.

#EarlyView in the #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/494VgjT

MCTD researcher Louise Hickman has joined a new project led by Noortje Marres @[email protected] at University of Warwick

➡️AI in the Street will explore the messy realities of how AI is encountered in the street, and divergences with responsible AI principles

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It's Friday evening in Melbourne and Im excited to be working with Thao Phan on our MonashWarwick cofunded project AI in the street. With thanks to sarah pink for initiating the conversation between our research centres CIM Warwick and emergingtechlab: here's to articulating…

#postdoc position ScPo médialab
Ecologies of LLMs Practices

What happens when #LLMs land in different practices and disciplines?
What is asked of them?
What do these technologies ask of their users?
How to account for their effects, limits and danger?

more info 👇

Oversight report indicates mass #surveillance of certain ethnic communities by Dutch police intelligence services

Great news: Warwick has been awarded a share of £100mil of Department for Science, Innovation and Technology funding for human-centred research on AI!

Find out more about this exciting opportunity ⬇️
warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/…

📣So happy to be working with such a fab team from Design Informatics, CIM Warwick, Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, Digital Humanities 🐘 @[email protected] and Careful Trouble to study and intervene in 'AI in the Street'.

🙏thanks to BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

More from Noortje Marres @[email protected] 👇

We’re investing in ten new AI projects, as part of our Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme, that will carry out early-stage research into how responsible AI can be used across sectors such as education, policing and the creative industries: orlo.uk/Cgi98

New Advanced Hyperbaric funding for AI projects was just announced with our BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) AI IN THE STREET among them! @Cimethods [email protected] Frau Dr.Auntie Occident is here and on Mastodon Rachel Coldicutt Mercedes Bunz Thao Phan Yasmine Boudiaf Louise Hickman ambinetTV.net et al. Watch this & watch the street! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

The persisent problem with explanation in the social sciences: my contribution to the debate LSE Sociology with Julian Go, Mike Savage Melinda Mills and Monika Krause now publised British Journal of Sociology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…