Many thanks to Lindsay Ball (and the brilliant ruth osorio) for arranging this interview with me on balancing being disabled and having activist commitments while working in higher education.

sparkactivism.com/amy-gaeta/

How will AI impact “the year of elections”?

Hear from guest speakers Prof Gina Neff Kenneth Cukier Tom Mason Dr Kerry McInerney (Mackereth) & Henry Ajder - chaired by Walter M. Pasquarelli w/ Diane Coyle

Tues 21 May
18:00-19:30
Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/events/how-wil…

Had a blast at Oxford Lit Festival OxfordLitFest speaking to Nuala McGovern Nuala McGovern (now the host of BBC Woman's Hour 💫🥰) about whether feminism can fix the internet for BBC World Service BBC World Service - check it out below! Future Intelligence

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…

Check out the link below to see our Senior Research Fellow, Maya, try her hand at light satire in this mock report, the Trentino Brief, to table the conflicts we must confront in a rush to apply generative AI in pedagogy and HE. Frau Dr.Auntie Occident is here and on Mastodon ZKM Karlsruhe
zkm.de/sites/default/…

New review: Check out Amy Gaeta's review of Crip Negativity in the link below!

New article out 🥳 'The 'Politics of the Faceless'' considers the martial & security regimes of the aerial view in humanitarian #drone journalism, & the 'affective economies' (Feminist Killjoy) of drone aesthetics in visualizing forced migration. Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-polit…

New event: How will AI impact “the year of elections”?

Join us for panel discussions w/ Diane Coyle Prof Gina Neff Tom Mason Dr Kerry McInerney (Mackereth) Kenneth Cukier Henry Ajder & Walter M. Pasquarelli

Tuesday 21 May, 18:00, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge

Book your free ticket: bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/events/how-wil…

New short piece by Beryl Pong & Amy Gaeta on our work and recent symposium on hybrid warfare that we co-hosted with the Imperial War Museums. Thanks to Faculty of English for publishing this!

See page 4, and check out the rest of the newsletter :)

english.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newslet…

Don't forget to register for the Drones and Culture event: The Future of Death in an Algorithmic Age on the 3rd of May - you can attend online and in person to hear Prof. Anthony Downey discuss the use of AI in Drone warfare! Centre for Drones and Culture
tickettailor.com/events/centref…

Call for Arts and Humanities Doctoral Students to participate in 'Introduction to Media Training with Vince Hunt': csah.cam.ac.uk/Education/Grad…

📢📢New publication alert! In this new paper, our MSt students, Alva Markelius, Connor Wright, Joahna Kuiper, Natalie Delille and Yu-Ting Kuo, question the current AI hype and offer a perspective on its planetary and social costs!
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

In her new article, our MPhil student Dvija Mehta explores mental actions, agency and identity in brain-computer interface tool use and presents her ‘contemplation conundrum’. bbc.com/future/article…

New Publication Alert! Our Teaching Fellow Milena Ivanova asks 'What is the Aesthetic Value of Science?' - read her answer through the link below! aestheticsforbirds.com/2024/04/11/wha…

Our researcher, Aisha Sobey, will be on this panel tonight! At Jesus College with the ThinkLab and Intellectual Forum!

Eleanor and I are so excited to be speaking at NYU Social and Cultural Analysis tomorrow! Link below 👇

as.nyu.edu/departments/sc…

Dr Eleanor Drage The Good Robot Podcast Future Intelligence

I have some science fiction poetry out as part of the newest issue of Feminist Review Feminist Review in the issue 'Feminist Futures II: Unruly Beyonds' - you can read it here! doi.org/10.1177/014177… Future Intelligence

Join Eleanor and Kerry on the 17th of April in Washington DC, as they discuss their new book, The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism, with a panel of experts. RSVP for a chance to win a free copy of the book.
eventbrite.com/e/good-robot-b…

Welcoming Jo Reilly, Visiting Scholar at Future Intelligence, to support SHiFT in developing its external affairs & influencing strategy. Previously: The Churchill Fellowship, Head of the Serious Organised Crime Unit HMPPS, Public Affairs Adviser to Archbishop of Canterbury, Policy Fellow CSaP - The Centre for Science and Policy.

New Publication Alert!! Researchers Dr Milena Ivanova and Dr Aisha Sobey have a blog post titled: Will medical AI apps help us achieve healthcare justice?
Full blog available in the link below: epicproject.org.uk