Co-Opting AI

Co-Opting AI, a collaboration between Public Books and the Institute for Public Knowledge, puts the most forward-thinking scholars and activists across technology, design, and inequality into conversation with one another, to consider how we can reclaim the story about technology for our planetary future.

Designing AI with Justice

I will discuss three concepts in this talk: first, the idea of design justice; second, how people are already resisting oppressive AI; and third, the ten principles of design justice ...

AI: Machines or Magic?

AI has always only partially been about the actual future of probable developments and base-rate outcomes; it has also been singularly productive of philosophical speculation, fantasy, and arguments about ourselves and the future ...

Co-Opting AI

Today, almost 70 years after Alan Turing famously asked, “Can machines think?,” what we call “artificial intelligence,” or AI, has seemingly come to penetrate our everyday life. It is in our phones ...