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When it comes to AI art (or "art"), it's hard to find a nuanced position that respects creative workers' labor rights, free expression, copyright law's vital exceptions and limitations, and aesthetics. 1/

As I reflect on the process of researching & writing The Chinese Typewriter and The Chinese Computer, I thought I highlight sites worldwide that house critical sources on the history of Chinese, Asian, and Non-Western IT. In no order, #1 is the BnF in Paris

Luke Stark’s (Luke Stark (lukestark.bsky.social) Western University) research explores the history and contemporary effects of #AI designed to interact with humans. Luke joins our Future Flourishing program.

Monday event! "How Data Happened" A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms (W. W. Norton & Company) Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones (Matthew L. Jones) with Audrey Borowski 📅17th June ⏲️11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK Register: bit.ly/3Vw3IU2

Join us today! "How Data Happened" A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms (W. W. Norton & Company) Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones (Matthew L. Jones) with Audrey Borowski 📅17th June ⌚️11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK Register: bit.ly/3Vw3IU2

Anyone here participate in ye olde Netflix Prize back during the primordial days? Would be thrilled to chat with you for a history of the prize and its significance in the development of AI and ML. Cannot offer $1m dollars, alas.

Based Otto Neurath

A phenomenal project: Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon invited data workers, the often abused & neglected lifeblood of the AI industry, to conduct their own research into their communities & write about it in their own words. This is true participatory AI. Visionary work. data-workers.org

📚Catch up on the latest must-reads on AI and democracy Recommended reads from our GETTING-Plurality team include books by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, Danielle Allen, Mark Coeckelbergh, Gone to 🦋 same user name., ⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳, Kate Crawford, chris wiggins (he/him/his) and Matthew L. Jones ash.harvard.edu/articles/ai-an…

Watch the AHA’s Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on the challenges posed by artificial intelligence on American History TV. Matthew L. Jones, Janet Abbate, Matthew Connelly, and Jeffrey Yost placed conversations on AI into historical context. c-span.org/video/?531280-…

UC Berkeley is hiring 5 new faculty in “AI, Inequality, and Society", to positions spanning the I School, CS, Law, Sociology, and Statistics. Great to see us double down in this space! Please distribute (and note the early application deadline of 9/16!): aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04498

Tfw the automatic classification of your article illustrates a little something about the perils of said classification

JOB AD: AI PROJECT LIAISON. Princeton School of Public & International Affairs & Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy hiring to spearhead new AI initiatives in DC, including engagement w/Congress & Federal Agencies. Application deadline: Aug 9. bit.ly/3VNVAzz #artificialInteligence #aitechnology #datascience #techpolicy #aijobs

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🚨This is a really awesome position for HSTM / STS / PhilSci! (Which I feel like hasn't been well advertised at all...)

🚨Face/Interface Deadline TODAY! Thanks for sharing with your networks (and for giving personalized nudges to brilliant-but-perhaps-self-doubting colleagues! cc Dave Crossland Letterform Archive Glyphs3.app I Love Typography Veronika, José Alphabettes Tim Brookes Nadine Chahine 🇱🇧

Law enforcement agencies act like there’s no information security risk to wiretapping infrastructure. Meanwhile, hostile nation-states systematically target and successfully exploit these systems, because why wouldn’t they?

.Princeton University is seeking AI Policy Fellows to work with federal agencies in order to advance AI policy. For the job description and application: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…