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Across the higher education sector, research and teaching staff are increasingly contending with shifting funding landscape, engaging with multiple disciplines, publishing cross-disciplinary research, and uncertainty about potential career pathways. Against this backdrop of significant changes, how might scholars, particularly at early stages of their academic careers, respond to these changes...
By Beatrice Bonami Whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be decolonial is a question that may never have a definitive answer. It echoes a broader dilemma: can former imperial powers truly be decolonial while still benefiting – politically, economically, and socially – from the empire structures created? So far, what we know about AI suggests...
📣 We are launching the Planetary AI Keynote Series titled ‘AI Futures’. This series is designed for us to discuss risks and opportunities of AI, AI governance, and most importantly radical ways of organising our economies and societies in the future. Our world does not have to be determined and...
by Beatrice Bonami Can inclusion be insidious? Can it be proclaimed openly while remaining hollow in practice? According to Ruha Benjamin, the answer is yes – and technology may be one of the most effective means to be insidious. As Prof. Benjamin argues, technological discourse often presents itself as universally...
by Beatrice Bonami What comes to mind when we think about Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Shiny robots, super computers? Cutting edge laboratories in Asia and North America? What if we tell you that AI is far closer to us than we might realize? It’s present in the spam folder in our...
Critical Prompts is a reading group to explore, discuss, and engage reflexively with critical scholarship on AI. This reading group is open to students, researchers, policy practitioners, and anyone interested in thinking critically about AI and its value chains. You can find out more in our announcement here! We meet...