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Very timely from Regine Paul, applying a Cultural Political Economy analysis to the EU AI Act's risk heuristic.

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Regine Paul examines the European Commission's unique AI regulation approach, questioning its reliance on a 'risk-based' strategy and offering three key insights. Access the open-access article here: bit.ly/3uzwj0Z #RegGov Wiley Politics & Policy

🏆 Proud to announce the winners of the 2023 paper prizes in Critical Policy Studies: Eleanor Jupp University of Kent wins the Gottweis Prize and Zulfa Sakhiyya Zulfa Sakhiyya at Universitas Negeri Semarang wins the Early Career Scholar Prize. Congratulations Eleanor and Zulfa!

So great that Doro Bohle and #WaltraudSchelkle are getting the crew back together! Cannot wait for a morning full of brilliant female political economy scholarship CES

critical_policy at #IPPA at 3.50
“Policy Studies vis-à-vis Climate Emergency”
Thea Riofrancos, Jennifer Dodge, Mathias Bimir, Sanne Akerboom & Marik Swinkels and Timmons Roberts on creeping crisis, integration, obstruction, false solutions and counter hegemony!

Great and much needed keynote by Deborah Stone #iccp6 - on democracy, science and policy in the age of democratic backsliding and authoritarianism. critical_policy

Individuals & organizations acting at boundaries btw knowledge, policy & practice fill notable roles in #SciencePolicyInterfaces . Eleanor MacKillop et al. show how UK #BoundaryOrganizations build #credibility in diverse ways to offer evidence to decision-makers doi.org/10.1093/scipol…

Excited about this urgent discussion. And happy to announce Claire Dunlop will also join!

🗞️OUT NOW!!!

Volume 17, Issue 2 of Critical Policy Studies --- with eight exciting research articles, a timely forum on US-China relations and the new statism, and two insightful book reviews. Thanks to all contributors!

tandfonline.com/toc/rcps20/17/2

The #AI Act focuses more on #AI systems being transparent, rather than being #ethical . It's problematic to assume that transparency means trustworthiness and acceptable level of risks. The #EU law mostly adds a layer of bureaucracy to harmful systems.

Sandra Wachter - @[email protected] #WIConf23

Cool position for critical policy study scholars in Toronto — July 15 deadline!

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ITAS researcher Jascha Bareis is frustrated with the hype around large language models like #ChatGPT .
The 'revolutionary' technologies from Silicon Valley will not help to solve our fundamental societal problems, he writes in this political essay. #AIHype
medium.com/@jascha.bareis…

Are you at IPPA on Thu 29 June? Join two stimulating panel sessions on #decolonial policy studies with wonderful papers and stellar discussant Hayden King. Rosana/Zana Boullosa

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Excited to meet up at IPPA Toronto next week and honoured to co-chair three excellent sessions on the 'politics of #technology solutionism' with Kathrin Braun. Please join us at Toronto Metropolitan University or via Zoom!

ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icp…

Are you coming to Toronto IPPA? Wanna mingle with critical policy scholars?
Grab some lunchbox from Podium 250 and join our critical_policy Community Luncheon ⏰12.15-13.15 EST in room KHE117!

Wanna know how Editors in policy studies field experience and try to navigate the peer review crisis? Join this hybrid roundtable at IPPA Toronto and discuss with us:

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Rachael Dobson Claudio M Radaelli Oscar Berglund Rosana/Zana Boullosa Marco Seeber

New FORUM by Lucas Erlbacher and Stefan Schmalz discusses #USChinaRelations and the advent of a new statism in public policies across the globe in an era of increasing geo-political and economic competition between these superpowers.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A large portion of workers who process #AI #data sets are #migrants . At the Weizenbaum Conference next week, we’ll discuss working conditions on online #labor platforms, the effects of algorithmic management & the role of migrant workers.

June 19 & 20 ➡️ weizenbaum-conference.de/?utm_source=tw…

Dear critical_policy community --- after some substantial technical hick-ups with Twitter and Gmail dual authentication (teaching us a lot about de-humanized ownership of communication in times of big tech), we are back in this space... Ready for IPPA at Toronto 26-29 June