Another great, theory-rich addition to our special issue (with Ludovico Rella) in AI & Society by Richard Groß: 'Stochastic Contingency Machines Feeding on Meaning: On the Computational Determination of Social Reality in Machine Learning'. bit.ly/3BAww7e

Another one fresh off the press from the AI&SOC SI co-ed with Fabio Iapaolo: Nicolas Chartier-Edwards, Etienne Grenier and Valentin Goujon talk the rise and fall of Meta's Galactica LLM, and its sociological, technical and epistemological risks and pitfalls link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Remember Galactica, the short-lived "LLM for science" from AI at Meta? With Nicolas Chartier-Edwards and Etienne Grenier (Institut national de la recherche scientifique), we used this controversy to "dis-assemble" Meta's industrial strategy and the broader promise of automated research: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The press of the AI&SOC Special Issue keeps on giving! link.springer.com/article/10.100… Konstantin Mitrokhov talks world models, model worlds, AI agents and synthetic agency. New articulations of agents/environment lay behind LLM's hypothetical capacity to generalize Fabio Iapaolo

So happy to see this out! A freshly-baked contribution to our special issue (Ludovico Rella) on weak and strong AI narratives by Paolo Bory, Simone Natale and Christian Katzenbach @[email protected]

📢CFP #AAG2025 **Making the city investable: State, financial infrastructures and technopolitical powers** Organized by: Francesca Governa, Emanuele Sciuva, albertovalzgris (@[email protected]) and myself Send your abstract to [email protected] and [email protected] by 18 Oct

⏳ Only a few days left to submit your proposal for the #10thSTSItaliaConference "Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring". 📝Don't miss your chance to contribute, just propose a title and a short description of your panel's topic! stsitalia.org/conference-202…

Individuating Simondon: 100 Years and Beyond 12, 13 & 14. 11. 2024 Keynote speakers: Andrea Bardin, Anne Alombert, Daniela Voss, Giovanni Carrrozzini, Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Pablo Esteban Rodríguez, Vincent Bontems, Yuk Hui cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/praxis/events/…

Last days to submit a panel proposal to the STS Italia Conference! Come join us in June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano 😊 Deadline: 21/10 Info 👇 stsitalia.org/conference-202…

The deadline to submit a panel proposal for the STS Italia Conference 2025 has been extended by one week. The new deadline is 28 October. More details at stsitalia.org/conference-202…

Our special issue in AI&Society (Ludovico Rella) is now home to this fantastic piece, where JEL, Hēmi Whaanga, and Ceyda Yolgörmez propose a research agenda to re-conceptualise and design AI systems based on Indigenous knowledge frameworks bit.ly/40aABJP

What material and epistemic politics is produced by "general purpose technologies" like AI and blockchain? What are the conditions for claims to generality, what are the consequences, and what alternatives are we left with? This and more here👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

⚡️🚗On Thursday 21st November (16-17.30 GMT) I'll be in conversation with Alex Gekker (University of Amsterdam/Alex Gekker 🐘 @[email protected]) launching Driving Decisions (Palgrave). The event is supported by Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media. To sign-up to the (online) event, follow the link: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_eD… 🚗⚡️

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Happy to share that my paper "On the individuation of complex computational models: Gilbert Simondon and the technicity of AI" is now available on AI & Society. Thanks to Ludovico Rella and Fabio Iapaolo for putting together this special issue! doi.org/10.1007/s00146…

The deadline is coming up for our CfA for #STSItalia2025: 'Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary' (Panel n.3)! Abstracts due 3rd February 2025. Organized with Susana Aires and Ludovico Rella. More info: bit.ly/49xJP5m

📢New publication out!📢 Co-authored with the brilliant @_sjbennett and Fabio Tollon, as part of Ludovico Rella and Fabio Iapaolo SI on ‘Where’s the Intelligence in AI?’, the paper explores the ways specific epistemic legacies and supply chains of labour shape AI practice&gov🧵

The deadline is next Monday, February 3 Susana Aires | Ludovico Rella