What does it mean to distinguish work and workers into 'formal' and 'informal'? And how does the digital gig/platform economy exacerbate issues of labor #dignity ?

Listen to episode 2 of #FemWork with Usha Raman & sabinadewan: bit.ly/3vNwneq

Please take a moment to read our new blog post on working with digital artists for the #GLoW3 exhibtion - we discuss the challenges of tailoring mature #RSE approaches for creative work:
kdl.kcl.ac.uk/blog/glow3-blo…

King's Culture King's CMCI King's Arts & Humanities

The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence is back! Running from 21 May to 25 May at King's College London, this free five-day series of events will showcase the latest advances in AI and their impact on society King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Register at kcl.ac.uk/news/festival-….

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

It was just incredibly overwhelming (in the good sense) as a Latina to see at Glow exhibition such a moving and amazing piece from violeta ayala - interacting with new digital art creating pieces with AI and AR - reframing women’s cultural narratives. It’s open until April 20th!

Finally got in my hands paz’s book “Tecnologías para un planeta en llamas”! It is available as an ebook for anyone who is interested too. Fun readings ahead!

Don't forget to join our Feminist Dialogues new seminar on Feminist and Queer mobilization with Sonia E. Alvarez and Zeynep Gülru Göker on April 17, ecpr.eu/Events/236

'[W]e recognise AI hype as a socio-technical narrative which is spun through a multitude of mechanisms globally and affect societies, and our planet, worldwide.'

ht: Eugenia Stamboliev

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I'm hiring two political theory post docs as part of my ERC/UKRI project Systemic Risk and the Transformation of Democracy. Please spread widely!

As #AI is adopted in workplaces, we must work to ensure existing digital gaps, for women and other groups, are not increased.

Yesterday, Prof Gina Neff joined the IPPR's Carsten Jung to discuss AI in workplace on BBC Woman's Hour

Listen here:

mctd.ac.uk/listen-gina-ne…

⚖️ Standards development orgs have made significant progress but struggle to keep up with an evolving threat landscape.

📖 New CETaS research explores how far international standards can take us towards achieving the goal of #SecureAI : bit.ly/3VANyKI

#AiStandards

A crucial stride for Chile! With the approval of the Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Framework Law, Chile is the 1st country in LAC creating a robust initiative on these issues. Hopefully this leads for responsible & meaningful work from all the actors involved.

📒New Turing research: 3/4 of women do not feel comfortable expressing political opinions online over fears they will be targeted with threats & harassment.

📰 ITV News covers the story: bit.ly/48Xi58o

The issue is being discussed now on #AIUK ’s Research Stage.

Day 2 #AIUK - incredible conversation and important notes from Kate Devlin King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence on the importance on the way we explore what means to be accountable and create consensus in the comprehensive processes of responsible AI. Fantastic panel and call to action The Alan Turing Institute

Interested in doing a PhD on large language models and knowledge graphs? Barbara McGillivray and I have a studentship available on Safe and trusted AI text generation with KG reasoners and LLMs at King's College London UKRI CDT in Safe & Trusted AI @ King's & Imperial Come join us! safeandtrustedai.org/project/safe-a…

So amazed that #AIUK it’s just starting and I already had the privilege to attend to two sessions presenting the work of @jakeelwes Me The Drag Queen Maribeth and judy wajcman Dorothy Chou . So happy to be part of it! Thanks to the The Alan Turing Institute for the Access Fund opportunity.

I was just reading a book today and in my notes I wrote “revisit definitions for human labour linked with data and gen AI” - digital serendipity at its best! Big thank you to the authors.

Our new article that presents a typology for understanding human labour integrated into the production of artificial intelligence systems. We call these forms of labour ‘AI data work’

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

With (James Muldoon Callum Cant Bóxī Wú 吴泊曦)

How is life in digital cities changing what it means to be human?
Join us on Monday 6.30pm as Myria Georgiou
discusses her new book & the politics & ethics driving #digitalchange in cities with @Sarahalsherif
Professor Ayona Datta Dr Matt Mahmoudi @[email protected] Ben Rogers
Open to all lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/03…

Just attended to the amazing and insightful event of King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence where Dr Sebastián Lehuedé invite us to reflect on key issues related to the environment and AI. Especially upon the often said “future extinction”, and that this is rather happening now to some communities on our sights.