Can we automate how AI models “understand” (see, know, identify, contrast) “culture” the way humans can? That’s the agenda for today. Slides by Diyi Yang captures some of the challenges and thinking.
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
Next week in Bremen
Ohhh you got tickets to it !!! 🫰
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 🙏🏾✨☺️
Omg thank you !! Amazing !
This is going to be an amazing book!
Great essays by Anna T Pinto error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas... and @tante.cc error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...
@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...
Thank you ! 🙏🏾🫶🥹
And to YOU TOO 🙌🏾
lol wasn’t following u till now
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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
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-...
I mean what is a scarf with pockets
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.
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/...
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...
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”
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...
Indian woman in a leather jacket and sporting long red bead earrings is holding up a copy of a book called Auto-correct
I just got copies of my first book 🥹
She’s here ! Pub day was March 25th. Thank you for so many pre-orders! I’m looking forward to talks and workshops in the coming year. Reach out if you want to invite me to talk about Ai, machine ethics, and the sociotechnical.
artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...
in poor taste imho
And then there’s the companion, Look of Silence, which LARPs accountability as a negotiation with personal trauma