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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<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We meet on alternative Thursdays, both online (on Teams) and in-person (in Edinburgh, UK). You can have a look below to see what we have been reading and sign up to our mailing list [here<\/a>] for updates on upcoming sessions, meeting details, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upcoming sessions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Mar 19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dencik, L., Hintz, A., Redden, J., & Trer\u00e9, E. (2025). Collectivity in data governance and data justice. Information, Communication & Society<\/em>, 28<\/em>(6), 943\u2013950. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1369118X.2025.2478096<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edwards, D., Cooper, Z. G. T., & Hogan, M. (2024). The making of critical data center studies. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies<\/em>, 31<\/em>(2), 429-446. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/13548565231224157<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 23<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lai, S. S., Flensburg, S., & Sick, K. (2026). Currents of control: Ownership evolutions in the submarine data cable industry. Media, Culture & Society<\/em>, 0<\/em>(0). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/01634437251410061<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 7<\/strong>

Amoore, L., Bennett, S., Campolo, A., Jacobsen, B., & Rella, L. (2025). Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI. Economy and Society<\/em>, 54<\/em>(3), 573\u2013596. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/03085147.2025.2560177<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Past sessions <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mar 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attard-Frost, B., & Widder, D. G. (2025). The ethics of AI value chains. Big Data & Society<\/em>, 12<\/em>(2). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/20539517251340603<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feb 19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gael Varoquaux, Sasha Luccioni, and Meredith Whittaker. 2025. Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 61\u201375. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3715275.3732006<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feb 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helm, P., Bella, G., Koch, G. et al.<\/em> Diversity and language technology: how language modeling bias causes epistemic injustice. Ethics Inf Technol<\/em> 26<\/strong>, 8 (2024). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10676-023-09742-6<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan 22<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miceli, M., Dinika, A.-A., Kauffman, K., Salim Wagner, C., Sachenbacher, L., Hanna, A., & Gebru, T. (2025). Methodological Considerations for Centering Workers\u2019 Epistemic Authority in AI Research. Proceedings of the AAAI\/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society<\/em>, 8<\/em>(2), 1698-1710. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1609\/aies.v8i2.36667<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nov 27<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? \ud83e\udd9c. Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’21)<\/em>. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 610\u2013623. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3442188.3445922<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nov 13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grohmann, Rafael, Andre Campos Rocha, and Guilherme Guilherme. 2025. \u201cWorker-Led AI Governance: Hollywood Writers\u2019 Strikes and the Worker Power.\u201d Information, Communication & Society<\/em>, June, 1\u201319. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1369118X.2025.2521375<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oct 30<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ana Valdivia. (2025). Data Ecofeminism. Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’25)<\/em>. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 391\u2013403. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3715275.3732027<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oct 16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucy Suchman. (2023). The uncontroversial \u2018thingness\u2019 of AI. Big Data & Society<\/em>, 10<\/em>(2). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/20539517231206794<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oct 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler. (2019). Anatomy of an AI System.<\/em> https:\/\/anatomyof.ai\/img\/ai-anatomy-publication.pdf<\/a>  


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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 on alternative Thursdays, both online (on Teams) and in-person (in Edinburgh, UK). You can have a look below to see what we have been reading and sign up to our mailing list [here] for updates on upcoming sessions, meeting details, etc. Upcoming sessions Mar 19 Dencik, L., Hintz, A., Redden, J., & Trer\u00e9, E. (2025). Collectivity in data governance and data justice. Information, Communication & Society, 28(6), 943\u2013950. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1369118X.2025.2478096 April 9 Edwards, D., Cooper, Z. G. T., & Hogan, M. (2024). The making of critical data center studies. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 31(2), 429-446. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/13548565231224157 April 23 Lai, S. S., Flensburg, S., & Sick, K. (2026). Currents of control: Ownership evolutions in the submarine data cable industry. Media, Culture & Society, 0(0). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/01634437251410061 May 7 Amoore, L., Bennett, S., Campolo, A., Jacobsen, B., & Rella, L. (2025). Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI. Economy and Society, 54(3), 573\u2013596. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/03085147.2025.2560177 Past sessions Mar 5 Attard-Frost, B., & Widder, D. G. (2025). The ethics of AI value chains. Big Data & Society, 12(2). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/20539517251340603 Feb 19 Gael Varoquaux, Sasha Luccioni, and Meredith Whittaker. 2025. Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI. 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