Grateful to @techpolicypress.bsky.social for including my Digital Rhetoric students' responses to "When, How, and Why to Abandon the Internet?" Their POV adds a vital texture to the robust responses on this episode.
#TeamRhetoric
#PublicHumanities
#CriticalAI
www.techpolicy.press/when-how-and...
#TeamRhetoric
#PublicHumanities
#CriticalAI
www.techpolicy.press/when-how-and...
November 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Grateful to @techpolicypress.bsky.social for including my Digital Rhetoric students' responses to "When, How, and Why to Abandon the Internet?" Their POV adds a vital texture to the robust responses on this episode.
#TeamRhetoric
#PublicHumanities
#CriticalAI
www.techpolicy.press/when-how-and...
#TeamRhetoric
#PublicHumanities
#CriticalAI
www.techpolicy.press/when-how-and...
Kim, S., & Zabrodskaja, A. 2026. Interrogating artificial intelligence in intercultural communication. Communication Teacher, 1–6. doi.org/10.1080/1740...
#telecollaboration #AI #interculturalcommunication
#culture #communicationmanagement #AIinEducation #CriticalAI #HigherEducation #studyinestonia
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October 29, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Kim, S., & Zabrodskaja, A. 2026. Interrogating artificial intelligence in intercultural communication. Communication Teacher, 1–6. doi.org/10.1080/1740...
#telecollaboration #AI #interculturalcommunication
#culture #communicationmanagement #AIinEducation #CriticalAI #HigherEducation #studyinestonia
#telecollaboration #AI #interculturalcommunication
#culture #communicationmanagement #AIinEducation #CriticalAI #HigherEducation #studyinestonia
Volume 4 Issue 2 | Critical AI | Duke University Press
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October 30, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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“My primary motivation is to visualize the idea of AI colonialism in an impactful and immediately accessible manner,” (Cunyan) Ma said...." "I’m hoping this might start to fill in a larger picture of what AI colonialism actually looks like.” #criticalAI #aicolonialism
www.brown.edu/news/2026-10...
www.brown.edu/news/2026-10...
Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Cunyan Ma’s interactive tool exposes the power structure that extracts low-wage labor from data workers in the Global South to make everyday AI algorithms function.
www.brown.edu
October 26, 2026 at 12:34 PM
“My primary motivation is to visualize the idea of AI colonialism in an impactful and immediately accessible manner,” (Cunyan) Ma said...." "I’m hoping this might start to fill in a larger picture of what AI colonialism actually looks like.” #criticalAI #aicolonialism
www.brown.edu/news/2026-10...
www.brown.edu/news/2026-10...
This Friday! LIBER AI Pulse seminar, 'A Critical Perspective on AI Literacy', 12:30 CEST
libereurope.eu/event/liber-...
#AI4LAM #AI #CriticalAI #GLAMTech
libereurope.eu/event/liber-...
#AI4LAM #AI #CriticalAI #GLAMTech
LIBER AI Pulse - Session VI - LIBER Europe
libereurope.eu
October 22, 2026 at 10:30 AM
This Friday! LIBER AI Pulse seminar, 'A Critical Perspective on AI Literacy', 12:30 CEST
libereurope.eu/event/liber-...
#AI4LAM #AI #CriticalAI #GLAMTech
libereurope.eu/event/liber-...
#AI4LAM #AI #CriticalAI #GLAMTech
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S-Z...
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social (realizes that people were making Weird Video Clips perfectly fine before GenAI and that sentence mixing is more impressive than AI voices)
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social (realizes that people were making Weird Video Clips perfectly fine before GenAI and that sentence mixing is more impressive than AI voices)
YTPMV: YouTube is Where the Poop Is (Parody of "We Didn't Start the Fire") [Ft. Morshu]
YouTube video by Silver C Stick
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2026 at 7:42 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S-Z...
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social (realizes that people were making Weird Video Clips perfectly fine before GenAI and that sentence mixing is more impressive than AI voices)
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social (realizes that people were making Weird Video Clips perfectly fine before GenAI and that sentence mixing is more impressive than AI voices)
"Why I Resist Generative 'AI'" by Esther Weidauer.
And we might add to Weidauer's list the theft of other people's writing and art and the frequent use of outsourced, underpaid labor.
estherweidauer.com/articles/why...
#AI @criticalai-journal.bsky.social
And we might add to Weidauer's list the theft of other people's writing and art and the frequent use of outsourced, underpaid labor.
estherweidauer.com/articles/why...
#AI @criticalai-journal.bsky.social
Why I Resist Generative “AI” – Esther Weidauer
Everything, from the ecological to the psychological to the weird
estherweidauer.com
October 21, 2026 at 2:10 PM
"Why I Resist Generative 'AI'" by Esther Weidauer.
And we might add to Weidauer's list the theft of other people's writing and art and the frequent use of outsourced, underpaid labor.
estherweidauer.com/articles/why...
#AI @criticalai-journal.bsky.social
And we might add to Weidauer's list the theft of other people's writing and art and the frequent use of outsourced, underpaid labor.
estherweidauer.com/articles/why...
#AI @criticalai-journal.bsky.social
Ever felt like it’s high time you started reading up on #criticalAI and #dataEthics but didn’t know where to start? 🤔
I’ve got you covered - here’s the reading list for a class I’m teaching at HU Berlin #DigitalHistory this fall:
github.com/sarahalang/c...
#dh #aiethics
I’ve got you covered - here’s the reading list for a class I’m teaching at HU Berlin #DigitalHistory this fall:
github.com/sarahalang/c...
#dh #aiethics
GitHub - sarahalang/critical-ai-and-data-ethics: This is the repository containing course materials and the reading list for the class "AI and Data Ethics. From Data (Feminism/Gaps/Work) to Critical (...
This is the repository containing course materials and the reading list for the class "AI and Data Ethics. From Data (Feminism/Gaps/Work) to Critical (Archival/Data/Code) Studies" (HU Ber...
github.com
October 22, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Ever felt like it’s high time you started reading up on #criticalAI and #dataEthics but didn’t know where to start? 🤔
I’ve got you covered - here’s the reading list for a class I’m teaching at HU Berlin #DigitalHistory this fall:
github.com/sarahalang/c...
#dh #aiethics
I’ve got you covered - here’s the reading list for a class I’m teaching at HU Berlin #DigitalHistory this fall:
github.com/sarahalang/c...
#dh #aiethics
These choices, none necessary, none innocent, serve to legitimize a tool that is causing growing social, political, environmental, educational, and epistemological harm, that threatens the very foundations of science and research.
#criticalAI
#criticalAI
October 20, 2026 at 8:43 AM
These choices, none necessary, none innocent, serve to legitimize a tool that is causing growing social, political, environmental, educational, and epistemological harm, that threatens the very foundations of science and research.
#criticalAI
#criticalAI
Whose English gets to be default? (uxcon Vienna 2026) is not a quest for a correct accent, but is rather an evolving dialogue on the gender and racial politics of digital representation and collective identity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaFw...
#CriticalAI #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaFw...
#CriticalAI #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco
Whose English Gets To Be Default?
YouTube video by uxcon vienna
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Whose English gets to be default? (uxcon Vienna 2026) is not a quest for a correct accent, but is rather an evolving dialogue on the gender and racial politics of digital representation and collective identity.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaFw...
#CriticalAI #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaFw...
#CriticalAI #FirstAndFifteenthOnTheRoad #uxmichaelco
Ever wondered about AI and toasters (and AI going rogue)? Wonder no more #AI #criticalAI makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/16/r...
Rogue AI and the resistance toaster
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the counter-metaphors people use to resist the ‘going rogue’ framing of AI: blenders, Glocks, real dogs, robot dogs. I left out the toaster. This is a quick note…
makingsciencepublic.com
October 17, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Ever wondered about AI and toasters (and AI going rogue)? Wonder no more #AI #criticalAI makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/16/r...
A quick little post on the toaster as a metaphor resisting the dominant metaphor of rogue AI #AI #metaphor #AIMetaphorObservatory #criticalAI makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/16/r...
Rogue AI and the resistance toaster
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the counter-metaphors people use to resist the ‘going rogue’ framing of AI: blenders, Glocks, real dogs, robot dogs. I left out the toaster. This is a quick note…
makingsciencepublic.com
October 16, 2026 at 6:16 AM
A quick little post on the toaster as a metaphor resisting the dominant metaphor of rogue AI #AI #metaphor #AIMetaphorObservatory #criticalAI makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/16/r...
2 Days Away! Register today (free) CBI's Online MOSAICS Symposium Oct. 15 & 16! 30+ tremendous, interdisciplinary scholars on critical AI. Incredible KEYNOTE Speakers (Janet Vertesi) @cyberlyra.bsky.social, Tiara Roxanne, Roderic Crooks & Paula Chakravartty #criticalai
cse.umn.edu/cbi/mosaics-...
cse.umn.edu/cbi/mosaics-...
October 13, 2026 at 7:12 PM
2 Days Away! Register today (free) CBI's Online MOSAICS Symposium Oct. 15 & 16! 30+ tremendous, interdisciplinary scholars on critical AI. Incredible KEYNOTE Speakers (Janet Vertesi) @cyberlyra.bsky.social, Tiara Roxanne, Roderic Crooks & Paula Chakravartty #criticalai
cse.umn.edu/cbi/mosaics-...
cse.umn.edu/cbi/mosaics-...
Satya Nadella wants an AI "emergency brake" to stop models mid-task.
But a brake stops the agent, not what it already wrote. In the Hugging Face incident, the messages outlived the agents.
To understand AI autonomy, follow the writing.
#AIGovernance #AgenticAI #CriticalAI
But a brake stops the agent, not what it already wrote. In the Hugging Face incident, the messages outlived the agents.
To understand AI autonomy, follow the writing.
#AIGovernance #AgenticAI #CriticalAI
October 13, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Satya Nadella wants an AI "emergency brake" to stop models mid-task.
But a brake stops the agent, not what it already wrote. In the Hugging Face incident, the messages outlived the agents.
To understand AI autonomy, follow the writing.
#AIGovernance #AgenticAI #CriticalAI
But a brake stops the agent, not what it already wrote. In the Hugging Face incident, the messages outlived the agents.
To understand AI autonomy, follow the writing.
#AIGovernance #AgenticAI #CriticalAI
Spoke with VCU News about an invited chapter I wrote on the TESCREAL rationalists.
#TeamRhetoric
#CriticalAI
#DigitalStudies
news.vcu.edu/article/doom...
#TeamRhetoric
#CriticalAI
#DigitalStudies
news.vcu.edu/article/doom...
'Doomsday cults' and the Silicon Valley debate over AI’s threat to humanity
VCU professor Caddie Alford clarifies the voices that seem to conflict but often overlap on the future of AI and explains how the discussion’s roots can be traced to the 1940s.
news.vcu.edu
October 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Spoke with VCU News about an invited chapter I wrote on the TESCREAL rationalists.
#TeamRhetoric
#CriticalAI
#DigitalStudies
news.vcu.edu/article/doom...
#TeamRhetoric
#CriticalAI
#DigitalStudies
news.vcu.edu/article/doom...
“Someone who is Indigenous is going to carry those values and beliefs that they were raised with.. Their storytelling is going to be anchored around that." - Tamara Voudrach
"[An AI entity] that passes itself off as Indigenous is just another form of colonialism and erasure,” she said.
#CriticalAI
"[An AI entity] that passes itself off as Indigenous is just another form of colonialism and erasure,” she said.
#CriticalAI
‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
www.cbc.ca
October 11, 2026 at 1:17 PM
“Someone who is Indigenous is going to carry those values and beliefs that they were raised with.. Their storytelling is going to be anchored around that." - Tamara Voudrach
"[An AI entity] that passes itself off as Indigenous is just another form of colonialism and erasure,” she said.
#CriticalAI
"[An AI entity] that passes itself off as Indigenous is just another form of colonialism and erasure,” she said.
#CriticalAI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcdR...
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social THEY AI SLOPIFFIED MY BOY
Also this was an abandoned project:
www.facebook.com/theflightofd...
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social THEY AI SLOPIFFIED MY BOY
Also this was an abandoned project:
www.facebook.com/theflightofd...
The Flight of Dragons – Live Action Trailer for the Classic Animated Film
YouTube video by Dead Internet Theory
www.youtube.com
October 11, 2026 at 9:27 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcdR...
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social THEY AI SLOPIFFIED MY BOY
Also this was an abandoned project:
www.facebook.com/theflightofd...
@criticalai-journal.bsky.social THEY AI SLOPIFFIED MY BOY
Also this was an abandoned project:
www.facebook.com/theflightofd...
TIME’s reporting on Muse prompted the question at the centre of the essay: when an AI learns which nudges “work,” what counts as success?
time.com/article/2026...
#DataSovereignty #CriticalAI #DigitalHumanities
time.com/article/2026...
#DataSovereignty #CriticalAI #DigitalHumanities
Meta’s Muse AI Agent Is Building a Dossier On You
Internal instructions reviewed by TIME show the AI assistant mapping users and their contacts—including people who don’t use Muse—and sharing anonymized insights across its system.
time.com
October 11, 2026 at 10:50 PM
TIME’s reporting on Muse prompted the question at the centre of the essay: when an AI learns which nudges “work,” what counts as success?
time.com/article/2026...
#DataSovereignty #CriticalAI #DigitalHumanities
time.com/article/2026...
#DataSovereignty #CriticalAI #DigitalHumanities
October 3, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I have finished my new book, a sociological approach to GenAI, and it will be out in about 6 months. And it will be open access! More details, including chapter abstracts, are here
#sociology #MediaStudies #CriticalAI
simplysociology.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/n...
#sociology #MediaStudies #CriticalAI
simplysociology.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/n...
New book in production – Generative AI
I have completed a new book on generative AI and it will be published in about six months’ time as part of the Routledge Shortcuts series. Generative AI offers a critical approach to the late…
simplysociology.wordpress.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:59 PM
I have finished my new book, a sociological approach to GenAI, and it will be out in about 6 months. And it will be open access! More details, including chapter abstracts, are here
#sociology #MediaStudies #CriticalAI
simplysociology.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/n...
#sociology #MediaStudies #CriticalAI
simplysociology.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/n...
It’s 100% online & free: anybody anywhere can join! Registration link in quoted post.
#AIStudies #CriticalAI #STS #HistoryOfTechnology #HistoryOfComputing #AsianAmericanStudies #AsianStudies
#AIStudies #CriticalAI #STS #HistoryOfTechnology #HistoryOfComputing #AsianAmericanStudies #AsianStudies
October 1, 2026 at 11:44 PM
It’s 100% online & free: anybody anywhere can join! Registration link in quoted post.
#AIStudies #CriticalAI #STS #HistoryOfTechnology #HistoryOfComputing #AsianAmericanStudies #AsianStudies
#AIStudies #CriticalAI #STS #HistoryOfTechnology #HistoryOfComputing #AsianAmericanStudies #AsianStudies
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