i wrote a post - "Destroy AI". ali-alkhatib.com/blog/fuck-up-ai

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Science fiction, counterfactual history, narrativized midcentury risk assessment: Future Histories of Life Otherwise, the study of what could’ve been. Go to futurehistories.berggruen.org to explore the Life, Otherwise project. #FutureHistories #LifeOtherwise

New op-ed from me in Foreign Policy!✍️🌏 The premise: to regulate AI effectively, we need information about how people actually use it, not just how it could be used. That requires giving researchers access to new kinds of data.

me with all my academic friends

Why didnt anyone warn me about DC mosquitoes

🇬🇷 #FAccT25 will be happening in Athens, Greece! The GCs (myself included) are looking for PhD students interested in paid RA positions helping organize the conference—in particular looking for students located in Athens. If this is you, please send me an email 🙏🏽

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Struggles over land are an underexplored part of debates over AI - this interview on NPR surfaces how policy decisions tip the scales toward unrestrained tech development in Taiwan and away from food and farming: npr.org/2023/04/13/116…

"Will data centers go the way of shopping malls? Likely not--they'll be repurposed for other massive computing projects." YES. THIS. from Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) buttondown.email/maiht3k/archiv…

Any recommended readings on the distinctions between "communication" and "media"? This feels like my Roman empire that comes back every few weeks 🫣

New research alert! How has the #COVID19 #pandemic reshaped the ways we share our lives on social media? I argue that it shifted what seems "worthy" of visibility, encouraging us to revise, reinvent, and resist our online personas. Article out now in NM&S journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

We're looking for participants for a research study about responsible decision-making at work! Specifically **managers and team-leaders at multi-national organizations working on AI-based products/services**! If interested, please fill out this form: gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8q…

I'm very happy to share my recent article published with @producing2power in the International Journal of Cultural Studies (International Journal of Cultural Studies). The article explores the life of Latin American influencers pursuing their "influencer dream" in the U.S. (1/9). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

I wrote this 4 years ago as a UCI MHCID student during COVID lockdown. Still one of my favorite pieces that I've written and still very much relevant: uxdesign.cc/what-octavia-b…

A few months ago, I wrote an article on #dataliteracy practices and #civictechnology in the International Journal of Communication . Here, I highlight the political and cultural conditions that shape the participatory capacities of data work. See more: shorturl.at/aVCu6📚 #communication #affordances

what is the opposite of responsible AI? Irresponsible AI?

“Infrastructure in most cases is demure.” (John Durham Peters, 2015, p. 34). Pleasant surprise during my reading session on infrastructures

The fact that this isn’t a bigger story is wild: a doctoral candidate at Cornell is facing deportation for his participation in anti-war protest. And that the school, that has the moral duty to protect its students, isn’t helping him is appalling: thenation.com/article/societ…