Morning! What are you reading today?

I’m still wrapping my head around this wonderful book by Madhumita Murgia.

This should be made an essential reading for all. Pan Macmillan India Teesta Guha Sarkar

I really enjoyed the fantastic conversation between very articulate and dynamic Madhumita Murgia and the sharp and smart Akash Banerjee on Madhumita’s book “Code Dependent”. They spoke about AI and its impact on society, jobs and the economy, about policy and regulation, and even…

Curious who uses alternatives to Google search and what they think of it from a purely quality perspective..

Thoughtful and fascinating discussion on the role AI is already playing on our lives (often without us realising it) and how we should best deal with it. Madhumita Murgia with Jahnavi Sen.
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15 data workers from 4 continents developing and delving into distinct research questions alongside their co-workers.
That is the **Data Workers' Inquiry**, and I'm excited for you all to meet our co-researchers, hear their stories, and support their demands on June 20!

Delhi, thanks for the warmest of welcomes! Such fascinating conversations and questions, was a joy to be discussing my book here this week Teesta Guha Sarkar Rachna رچنا ਰਚਨਾ The DeshBhakt 🇮🇳

The Inequalities AI Is Creating – and Deepening – Around the World.

[It is the most important conversation to be had now]
Jahnavi Sen Madhumita Murgia , AI Editor Financial Times discuss AI in context of those far away from Silicon Valley.

Hidden labour behind ‘AI’
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A Manifesto for AI Users: Is Artificial Intelligence changing what it means to be human?, asks Ullekh NP/ഉല്ലേഖ് എൻപി, Pan Macmillan India; Madhumita Murgia t.ly/gE178

What’s Apple doing in AI? ⁦⁦Michael Acton⁩ reports that it’s been hiring Google staff to build its team, with some bonus sleuthing to uncover a secret Zurich AI lab⁩ via Financial Times
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Delhi - come join us with your questions at the British Council in India tomorrow at 6:30pm!

When Madhumita Murgia's scoops about chatgpt show up in chatgpt, will chatgpt be self-aware? ft.com/content/333287…

Hope you enjoyed it Alison!

Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books

and the same is true of how digital technologies percolate and change interactions - frequently not a big bang, but a slow accumulation that continues to accrete until everything is changed forever - and that change is more permanent exactly because it has accumulated

Join us at The Quorum on 2 May at 6:30 pm for the much-awaited Mumbai launch of CODE DEPENDENT: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia! She will be in conversation with Govindraj Ethiraj.

Asia Society India Centre

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This gives me so much joy!

That’s it, I’m officially an old

I am so beyond delighted to have won the 2024 Stern-Bryan fellowship. If and when the state of disbelief wears off, all US tips welcome! I cannot wait to get stuck in at the The Washington Post over the summer 🇺🇸

Join us at the British Council (British Council in India) on 30 April at 6:30 pm for the New Delhi launch of the Women's Prize-shortlisted CODE DEPENDENT by Madhumita Murgia! Madhumita will be in conversation with none other than The DeshBhakt 🇮🇳!

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Perfectly paired fiction and non-fiction this week -- thinking about the future, the technology and people that make it, and what happens at the margins in the process of making. (Bonus that the covers get along, too!)

Lavanya Lakshminarayan | Interstellar MegaChef Madhumita Murgia, and rec from Nirav Mehta 📚 :)