Anthropomorphizing the user interface of a sociotechnical apparatus?
Sounds like a marketing project.
Sounds like a marketing project.
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Anthropomorphizing the user interface of a sociotechnical apparatus?
Sounds like a marketing project.
Sounds like a marketing project.
We need a better sociotechnical and -cultural paradigm than this. This shit is so untenable
September 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We need a better sociotechnical and -cultural paradigm than this. This shit is so untenable
I just… i hate this sociotechnical and -political paradigm, so, so much.
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"If there were adults in the room and I could trust the federal government to impose the right standards, it wouldn't be such a great concern, but it just doesn't seem feasible."
Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I just… i hate this sociotechnical and -political paradigm, so, so much.
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The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.
March 3, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.
So, I've decided I'm a sociotechnical conference organizer. #atmosphereconf
March 30, 2026 at 4:03 AM
So, I've decided I'm a sociotechnical conference organizer. #atmosphereconf
Fuck i miss the sociotechnical contextual milieu of livejournal
November 17, 2023 at 4:15 AM
Fuck i miss the sociotechnical contextual milieu of livejournal
It's sociotechnical systems all the way down!
I suspect that we really do need to emphasize a much more social learning/collaborative knowledge approach to this versus individual understanding, that's the piece that software culture doesn't like to admit though!
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It's sociotechnical systems all the way down!
Men will invest literally trillions of dollars in time, resources, conceptual energy, and paradigmatic drive in science fictional ideas which we as a species have not even one millionth the sociotechnical capacity for rather than go to therapy.
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Men will invest literally trillions of dollars in time, resources, conceptual energy, and paradigmatic drive in science fictional ideas which we as a species have not even one millionth the sociotechnical capacity for rather than go to therapy.
'Reimagining "AI's" Environmental and Sociotechnical Materialities' afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6406
Reimagining “AI’s” Environmental and Sociotechnical Materialities
There’s a new open-access book of collected essays called Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity, and I happen to have an essay in it. The collection is made of contributions…
afutureworththinkingabout.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
'Reimagining "AI's" Environmental and Sociotechnical Materialities' afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6406
For people who aren’t familiar with this analysis, I encourage you to do some reading! eg engagement.virginia.edu/node/4641
J-Term: Slavery as a Sociotechnical System
engagement.virginia.edu
September 8, 2026 at 2:47 AM
For people who aren’t familiar with this analysis, I encourage you to do some reading! eg engagement.virginia.edu/node/4641
Transfems built an entire alternative industry in our current climate of hostile sociotechnical visibility - imagine what could be done if platforms actually started following their own TOS and rhetoric and actually protected us!
Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.
Trans women are building their own publishing world, and it’s under threat
Online communities are stepping in where traditional publishing stops.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Transfems built an entire alternative industry in our current climate of hostile sociotechnical visibility - imagine what could be done if platforms actually started following their own TOS and rhetoric and actually protected us!
Every beloved archive of sociotechnical artifacts was once someone's hoarding problem
March 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Every beloved archive of sociotechnical artifacts was once someone's hoarding problem
In this sociopolitical moment, with these sociotechnical concerns, Kennesaw State— the university where I'd taught the longest thus far— is getting rid of their degrees in philosophy, Black studies, & technical communication, & it's hard to not also feel this assemblage of facts as a personal attack
May 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In this sociopolitical moment, with these sociotechnical concerns, Kennesaw State— the university where I'd taught the longest thus far— is getting rid of their degrees in philosophy, Black studies, & technical communication, & it's hard to not also feel this assemblage of facts as a personal attack
First up, my most cited paper, hands-down: "Fitting the Description: Historical and Sociotechnical Elements of Facial Recognition and Anti-Black Surveillance" scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
Fitting the description: historical and sociotechnical elements of facial recognition and anti-black surveillance
DP Williams, Journal of Responsible Innovation, 2020 - Cited by 42
scholar.google.com
February 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
First up, my most cited paper, hands-down: "Fitting the Description: Historical and Sociotechnical Elements of Facial Recognition and Anti-Black Surveillance" scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
everything is sociotechnical.
September 7, 2026 at 6:36 AM
everything is sociotechnical.
Structuring the Space of Sociotechnical Alignment: A Specification Framework and Systematic Literature Review Sociotechnical alignment concerns the social desirability of AI behavior and is thus inherently normative, not merely technical. While NLP research increasingly addresses
#sociology link
#sociology link
June 9, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Structuring the Space of Sociotechnical Alignment: A Specification Framework and Systematic Literature Review Sociotechnical alignment concerns the social desirability of AI behavior and is thus inherently normative, not merely technical. While NLP research increasingly addresses
#sociology link
#sociology link
has anybody read this from the union of unions, yet?
> Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Higher Education Sector Sociotechnical perspectives, regulatory challenges and working conditions Edited by Aída Ponce Del Castillo
PDF: etuceprodstorage.blob.core.windows.net/assets/files...
> Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Higher Education Sector Sociotechnical perspectives, regulatory challenges and working conditions Edited by Aída Ponce Del Castillo
PDF: etuceprodstorage.blob.core.windows.net/assets/files...
March 18, 2026 at 3:46 PM
has anybody read this from the union of unions, yet?
> Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Higher Education Sector Sociotechnical perspectives, regulatory challenges and working conditions Edited by Aída Ponce Del Castillo
PDF: etuceprodstorage.blob.core.windows.net/assets/files...
> Governing Artificial Intelligence in the Higher Education Sector Sociotechnical perspectives, regulatory challenges and working conditions Edited by Aída Ponce Del Castillo
PDF: etuceprodstorage.blob.core.windows.net/assets/files...
📢📢 Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI’25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies.
🌐 Website: chi-staig.github.io
🗓️ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025
🌐 Website: chi-staig.github.io
🗓️ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025
December 23, 2024 at 6:47 PM
📢📢 Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI’25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies.
🌐 Website: chi-staig.github.io
🗓️ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025
🌐 Website: chi-staig.github.io
🗓️ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025
In addition to being great factual reporting, this does a really good job of disambiguating all the things that get hustled in under the header of "AI," and the various sociotechnical and historical points at which that term has been used to mean those different things.
March 27, 2026 at 2:57 AM
In addition to being great factual reporting, this does a really good job of disambiguating all the things that get hustled in under the header of "AI," and the various sociotechnical and historical points at which that term has been used to mean those different things.
I especially feel this when sociologists who study technology do this.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I especially feel this when sociologists who study technology do this.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
Y'all are supposed to take sociotechnical approaches to the study of technology. A throwaway AI-generated image does not help that credibility.
Structuring the Space of Sociotechnical Alignment: A Specification Framework and Systematic Literature Review Sociotechnical alignment concerns the social desirability of AI behavior and is thus inherently normative, not merely technical. While NLP research increasingly addresses
#sociology link
#sociology link
June 9, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Structuring the Space of Sociotechnical Alignment: A Specification Framework and Systematic Literature Review Sociotechnical alignment concerns the social desirability of AI behavior and is thus inherently normative, not merely technical. While NLP research increasingly addresses
#sociology link
#sociology link
The current paradigm of "AI" encodes & recapitulates eugenicist, fascist, and generally bigoted tendencies— but previous paradigms did, too, & if these facts had been addressed, then, in the culture of technology specifically and our sociotechnical culture writ large, it might not still be like that
October 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The current paradigm of "AI" encodes & recapitulates eugenicist, fascist, and generally bigoted tendencies— but previous paradigms did, too, & if these facts had been addressed, then, in the culture of technology specifically and our sociotechnical culture writ large, it might not still be like that
Amazon is perfectly poised - infrastructurally, politically, economically - as a sociotechnical substrate of education that may be impossible to get rid of when it starts flexing its influence on what gets taught, researched and reproduced to the next generation.
September 26, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Amazon is perfectly poised - infrastructurally, politically, economically - as a sociotechnical substrate of education that may be impossible to get rid of when it starts flexing its influence on what gets taught, researched and reproduced to the next generation.
mechagodzilla is actually best understood as a sociotechnical system
May 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
mechagodzilla is actually best understood as a sociotechnical system