Some growing key question here really are:

How to defend or adapt disciplines (not just artistic/cultural ones) against this kind of semantic hollowing out of what it means to have skills, experience and expertise in a(ny) field...

What approaches, qualities and "values" (physical, ethical […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116210085518302030

In addition to the people already mentioned by @ele below, I highly recommend the following as too, for some critical counter views & research related to contemporary AI and its impacts on politics, climate, energy, education, arts […]

New paper: "Opportunities, challenges, and conspicuous absences: An integrative review of the social work literature on artificial intelligence." For a special issue of critical perspectives on technology and social work. Check it out: anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/articl...

#SocialWork #SWTech #CriticalAI

CB027: Synthetic data and representation: The politics of AI generated computational practices Synthetic data are touted as fixes to technical, ethical, and political challenges. But what do they mean for the politics of representation in knowledge

A few more days left to submit your abstract to our panel on #syntheticdata at the #EASST conference!
Deadline on Monday, March 9!
"Synthetic data and representation: The politics of AI generated computational practices"
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

#STS #criticaldatastudies #AI #criticalAI

First #16: The AI Con The AI Con, as its name misleadingly suggests, is not solely about AI; rather, it is an assiduous exercise in excoriating the runaway hype engulfing the technology industry. Co-written by computatio...

New review! First no. 16: The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social

www.first-and-fifteenth.co/first-16-the...

#FirstAndFifteenth #CriticalAI #uxmichaelco

Cover of Technoetic Arts journal, Volume 23 Number 2, published by Intellect Journals (ISSN 1477-965X). The cover image shows an installation view of 'Revivification' (2025) by Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson, Stuart Hodgetts, and Matt Gingold, photographed by Rebecca Mansell, courtesy of the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The work fills a darkened gallery space with rows of illuminated golden circular forms mounted on black walls receding into the distance, with a geometric textile or printed element placed on the floor in the foreground.

Happy to announce the publication of Technoetic Arts 23.2 @technoeticarts.bsky.social ! My editorial "Reflections on scripts and life" is open access: doi.org/10.1386/tear.... Issue overview: ta.pubpub.org/pub/issue-23... #TechnoeticArts #BioArt #AI #CriticalAI #Art 1/5 | @dlila.bsky.social

Cover of Technoetic Arts journal, Volume 23 Number 2, published by Intellect Journals (ISSN 1477-965X). The cover image shows an installation view of 'Revivification' (2025) by Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson, Stuart Hodgetts and Matt Gingold, photographed by Rebecca Mansell, courtesy of the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The work fills a darkened gallery space with rows of illuminated golden circular forms mounted on black walls receding into the distance, with a geometric textile or printed element placed on the floor in the foreground.

Technoetic Arts Volume 23, Issue 2 is now published! Issue 23.2 explores the relationship between scripts and life. The editorial overview by Claudia Westermann is open access: doi.org/10.1386/tear... Issue abstracts: ta.pubpub.org/pub/issue-23... #TechnoeticArts #BioArt #AI #CriticalAI #Art 1/4

Wrote a short post on @cunygcdi.bsky.social's blog, 'Tagging The Tower' on attending a @datasociety.bsky.social event earlier this week. It prompted me to think about #AILiteracy / #DigitalLiteracy / #CriticalAI in @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social's ecosystem:

gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/02/20/t...

Photo of the book” The AI Con: How To Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create The Future We Want”, by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna. The cover a plain white cover with the word “The” in giant black letters, “AI” in giant red letters, and “Con” in giant black letters, and the book is shot close up and top down on a light green textured wool covered sofa material.

First #16 on The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social — “a wonderful riposte to the magical thinking propelling the indiscriminate deployment of generative AI.”

S/O @hypestudies.bsky.social for capturing its spirit. Link below 👇🏾

#FirstAndFifteenth #CriticalAI #uxmichaelco

Speaker spotlight: Os Keyes researches gender, disability, and power in AI, alongside the history and sociology of scientific work around trans medicine. Panel 2 (Feb 18) uky.zoom.us/j/86848639105
#CriticalAI #STS

Da steckt viel drin, auch, um im eigenen Bibliotheksumfeld Bewusstsein zu schaffen. 💪

Wir als #NetzwerkGrüneBibliothek Aktive werden darüber mehr berichten, Code of Conduct ist unterzeichnet! Ein Anfang!

#wegreenitup #criticalAI

Luke Munn, Liam Magee, Vanicka Arora, and Awais Hameed Khan introduce “Unmaking AI,” a framework for critically evaluating generative AI image models beyond surface-level bias metrics, focusing on ecosystems, training data, and outputs in #CriticalAI 3.2.

read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

We encourage submissions that critically examine both opportunities and risks of emerging technologies in AAC.
icchp.org/session/698/
#CriticalAI #AACResearch #ICCHP26

CDI (Warwick): research on platforms, AI, infrastructures, labour & culture.
CDI-TV: hybrid livestream talks + workshops: www.youtube.com/@centrefordi...
Events + updates: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
Pitch guests/collabs: cdi@warwick.ac.uk

#PlatformStudies #CriticalAI #MediaStudies

Retro AI: CFP Retro AI: Archeologies of Artificial Intelligence In-Person at USC: July 31, August 1Extended Deadline: Feb 1 The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been obsessively focussed on the nex...

Deadline Feb 1. CFP: Retro AI: Archaeologies of Artificial Intelligence at USC July 31-Aug 1, 2026, in-person symposium looking at the history of AI, ethics, innovation, and more.

bit.ly/retroai26

#artificialintelligence #critcode #criticalAI

Gender & Tech: Dis/Misinformation & Political Extremism - DTD Lab

Of interest to #criticalai folks dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender...

Writing & AI 6: Rhetoric After Truth: Populism and Digital Persecution Time: Friday, 27/Mar/2026: 10:30am - 11:45am Less AI, More Literacy: Empowering Students to Think Critically and Resist AI Hype in the Writing Classroom Allison Dieppa Florida Gulf Coast University In a Post-Truth Age, Does the Term “Propaganda” Have Meaning? David Elder Morningside University Purity Test: An Understanding of Populist Thought on Social Media Dylan Hampton Indiana University Southeast Borges, Merton, and Generative OpenAI: Using Analogies of Babel to Make Sense of Algorithmic Madness and Technological Absurdity Thomas Malewitz Spalding University

I'll be presenting at the College English Association conference on March 27th, and my panel looks like it's going to be really interesting. Looking forward to it! #CEA2026 #criticalAI #comprhet #writingstudies

The Rosaceous Compression: Documenting Memory as Transformation and the Myth of Lossless Storage

#CriticalAI

How Algorithmic Systems Automate Inequality James O’Sullivan explains how automated decision-making can reinforce inequality, obscure accountability, and reshape power under the guise of efficiency.

How Algorithmic Systems Automate Inequality

www.techpolicy.press/how-algorith...

#genAI #AI #criticalAI @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Friday morning at #SSWR2026: a roundtable on philosophy of science perspectives w/ Beth Counselman-Carpenter, Melissa Thompson, & @jbsinger.bsky.social. This will to be a fun jam of ideas & viewpoints. @sswrorg.bsky.social sswr.confex.com/sswr/2026/we... #SWTech #CriticalAI

Bridging this feed of viewpoints & critical inquiries about technology into #SSWR2026 and aiming to translate more of this work into #socialwork & #humanservices. It's an epistemic community I find refuge in. @sswrorg.bsky.social @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social

#CriticalAI #STS #DigitalHumanties

#2 Critical AI Seminar Series: Vector Media January 13, 17:30-19:00 (CEST): Vector Media This talk presents a new history and theory of the vector space in contemporary artificial intelligence systems. I will argue that the inevitable bias of s...

✨Welcoming Fabian Offer for the next #CriticalAI Seminar (online) on his upcoming book "Vector Media" on January 13, 2026 5:30-7 PM (Amsterdam)✨

The talk presents a new history and theory of the vector space in contemporary #AI systems

🗓️ Register here: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/2-cri...

Always remember that social media is a mirror not a window

#resist #criticalAI #AI #BSKY

When a message feels too right or too tailored to our anger or joy, our "symbol-wisdom" should kick in and remind us:

"This is a mirror, not a window."

​ #AcademicSky #CriticalAI #MediaEcology

​Act: I am being shown a specific political meme.
​Scene: In an app designed to keep me scrolling.
​Agent: An algorithm optimized for engagement, not truth.
​Agency: By using my past data to trigger a specific emotion.
​Purpose:To keep me on the platform.

​ #AcademicSky #CriticalAI #MediaEcology 🧵

​We’ve moved from Mass Media (one message to many people) to
Hyper-Individualized Reality (one message tailored specifically to you)

AI that knows you better than your neighbors do

​ #AcademicSky #CriticalAI #MediaEcology

🧵

Retro AI: CFP Retro AI: Archeologies of Artificial Intelligence In-Person at USC: July 31, August 1Extended Deadline: Feb 1 The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been obsessively focussed on the nex...

We're extending the deadline to Feb 1. CFP: Retro AI: Archaeologies of Artificial Intelligence at USC July 31-Aug 1, 2026, in-person symposium looking at the history of AI, ethics, innovation, and more.

bit.ly/retroai26

#artificialintelligence #critcode #criticalAI

Excerpt from the essay itself in a paragraph that begins "That is not to imply..."

Ricky D. Crano's pungent review essay of Bowen and Watson's TEACHING WITH AI is an incisive look at what an AI first mentality does to the project of higher education: it continues #CriticalAI 3.2's recurring interesting in #teachingcriticalaailiteracies.
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Stop Pretending Chatbots Have Feelings: Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem When AI causes harm, headlines blame the bot instead of the billion-dollar companies that built them. This anthropomorphic coverage is tech journalism at its worst.

Human-centred design is for the people.
AI-centred journalism isn't.

#AIEthics #CriticalAI #AcademicSky #TechSky #OpenAI #ChatGPT #TechJournalism

www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...

#CriticalAI 3.2 continues w/ Tiffany DeRewal's masterful probe in #NotebookLM - which right now is the most read essay in the journal! And no wonder. Read it here (and please ask your library to subscribe to CAI) read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...