Six vacancies at CFI including RA, admin, and asst professor

Someone told me about their company building AGI and when I asked them to explain, they said it would be ‘an AI’ that could make complex travel itineraries for groups of people, so basically a secretary or travel agency? An efficiency mindset keeps Jack from going mad.

We're delighted to share information for a position that may be of interest to some of our members: An Assistant Professorship in the Department of Film & Media at the University of California Berkeley.

“In any case, I wasn’t convinced these technologies were sophisticated enough to hasten societal collapse just yet. Some of them couldn’t connect to the internet.” Absolutely stellar writing, pitch perfect, sad and unexpectedly hopeful right at the end. nplusonemag.com/issue-47/essay…

As Venkatesh Rao ☀️ says about this piece in a Substack note, and that & am still thinking about (the piece, not what VGR said about it) “threads the needle between knee-jerk techlash criticism and craven tech cheerleading. I wish more people would write in this vein.”

We're #hiring! 2 key roles in our WITNESS Technology Threats and Opportunities team, at forefront of acting on how #genAI #deepfakes #syntheticmedia impact human rights, rights defenders and trust, working alongside great team and myself. #jobs #AI #humanrights #techpolicy

#AcademicTwitter, I am going to start sharing more details of some quality, #openaccess journals in the social sciences, who won't sell your stuff to AI companies, and also don't charge you fees. Please DM me or reply with *genuine* examples. This will be on ongoing thread. 1/n

Join our event "AI in the street: prompts for debate" Thurs, 12 Sept 6.30pm at Science Gallery London with Mercedes Bunz Talking Birds & Frau Dr Auntie Occident & other lovely humans.  Please register 👉eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-st… Thx BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides)

Surely the greatest accolade a philosopher could hope for? 😂 I found out via The Scotsman that my work has inspired a comedy show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe (by Hannah Whittingham) 'Death Becomes Us', reviewed (favourably!) here scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu… (I sadly haven't seen it!)

The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga is seeking applications for a tenure-stream Assistant Professor in the area of game studies. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…

This is actually really funny

Come by next Thursday 12th 6.30pm Science Gallery London w Sam Nutt London Office of Technology and Innovation Mercedes Bunz Noortje Marres @[email protected] Theo Damoulas University of Warwick CIM Warwick and Janet Vaughn of Talking Birds Coventry. Also, I’m told there will be canapés, lots of canapés

The machine that fosters shame: The weaponisation of sexuality in anti-gender anti-democracy disinformation An excellent report by Subha Wijeseriwaedena for ⁦APC⁩ Becky Faith said I’m officially a Grand Dame of Feminist Internet ref footnote 1 apc.org/en/pubs/machin…

if the AI generators were nudifing men in an unflattering way, society would believe in a heartbeat that these images are someone's keyboard-driven imagination and not reality x.com/mayameme/statu…

Oh good, I was hoping for a terrifying, fungus-related dystopian nightmare today

Remote technicians help driverless cars drive. The AI is humans all the way down; the ironies of autonomy, the world around the robot has to be re-shaped to accommodate it. The saga of the driverless car unfolds as predicted. nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTimes