Manifesto on “Algorithmic Sabotage” / Co-authorship · Preliminary version of 50 statements on th strategies & aesthetics of “Algorithmic Sabotage” ..

👉🏻 tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/11241195…

This: 'AI is not superhuman nor supernatural, it is saturated with all the affects and desires and violence of human subjectivity and its systems extract from human labor, water, and environmental resources. Undeniably, artificial intelligence exacerbates climate change.'

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Attending #TEACHx2024 next week? I'm moderating a panel featuring amazing Northwestern SESP undergrads about our experience in AI, Equity, and Public Education, a course that I designed and taught with Sepehr Vakil.

Registration info at: teachx.northwestern.edu

Our course in meme form:

Time to ask technoskeptical questions with students:

1. What does society give up for the benefits of the technology?

2. Who is harmed and who benefits from the technology?

3. What does the technology need?

For more ideas, visit the Civics of Technology site: civicsoftechnology.org/curriculum

Much AI discourse has begun to revolve, rightly, around algorithmic harm. But what's a harm? In our new #FAccT2024 paper, Nathalie DiBerardino, Clair Baleshta and I draw on a common philosophical definition of harm to distinguish between a 'harm' and a 'wrong' 1/n

Oh my! First solo authored article is out in National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) #MiddleLevelLearning ! Please check it out and share with history educators interested in topics of gender, labor, and technology!
socialstudies.org/middle-level-l…

Microsoft: claims to be ''zero-waste by 2030.''

Also Microsoft: provides 'digital technologies [to] help [fossil fuel] companies discover oil faster, squeeze more from existing wells, and boost productivity across their operations...'

Putting together slides about a project and needed to communicate my approach to Big Tech's vision of education and really there's no better way to say it than these evergreen words from Dr. Chris Gilliard:

sorry to be a spoiler but there is no way around a genuinely socially responsible AI without directly tackling systemic inequalities and building accountability mechanisms on the current concentration of power in the hands of big corps/AI companies

Speaking of value, no prompting our way out of this 👉🏻 ‚In Cedar Rapids, where leaders have approved tax breaks for a proposed Google data center, the top 10 largest water users together now use about 60 percent of the city’s average daily treated water.‘ thegazette.com/environment-na…

At @publicbooks we invite those in university communities—incl. students, staff, and faculty—to submit essays, interviews, oral histories, artwork, or other forms of media that share reflections, analysis, and testimony about the campus encampments. More: publicbooks.org/events/open-ca…

'Captive audiences, like refugees, children, prisoners, and low wage workers are all Zombie Trainers, unaware of the hidden tasks they perform, the new industries they're building, or the communities being harmed in the process.' Adrienne Williams
newsweek.com/zombie-trainer…

An important report and one that highlights another crucial AI literacy practice: working with students to interrogate the often false, misleading claims made by tech companies selling 'AI' weapons detection to schools and other surveillance tools.

An AI 'resume screening program identified two factors as the best predictors of future job performance: having played high school lacrosse and being named Jared.' politico.com/news/magazine/…

Recent campus protests–and the push to ID protesters–have raised concerns about how colleges track their students every day.

We investigated on this back in 2023: themarkup.org/machine-learni…

Please take and share our survey! Available at: bit.ly/tiktok-accessi…

Y'all do *not* want to miss the 3rd Annual Civics of Technology Conference with keynotes from Dr. Tiera Chantè Tanksley and Brian Merchant. Free, online, and in my experience, two days of 🔥🔥🔥. More information at: civicsoftechnology.org/blog/join-us-f…