I’m experimenting with creating trancripts of AI research jobs (documentation, diagrams, session/step logs, human- vs. machine-time, token usage) for transparency & reproducibility.
Alan Liu
@alanyliu.bsky.social
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I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded 4Humanities.org & co-founded center-humanities-communication.org. My website: liu.english.ucsb.edu
![Text excerpts from Ch. 14, “Resisting BYOI (Bring Your Own Infrastructure) in Digital Humanities Learning Spaces” by Kush Patel, Ashley Caranto Morford, and Arun Jacob (Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed Collective), in _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ (pp. 277, 278 in print ed.):
"We have crafted a fictional creative writing piece—a Twine narrative (discussed later in this chapter)—based on our own lived experiences but set within fictional institutions and using fictional technological platforms…. Our Twine narrative is set at the beginning of the global Covid pandemic and consists of a series of email chains. Readers follow the experiences of faculty, staff, students, and precarious workers at postsecondary institutions in India, the United States, and Canada as they navigate changes to educational processes and organize their activities through online infrastructures…."
"In the accompanying reflection that follows the Twine story, we provide a rationale and analysis of the creative piece involving three concepts: responsibilization, crisortunity a crisis situation presenting the opportunity for someone to gain something], and digital infrastructural otherwises. With each of these concepts, grounded in specific sociotechnical realities, we reflect on the possibility of reimgining infrastructure to enable more care-filled and just teaching, learning, and organizing…."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:focvijs2anjmlfqlrxcumphd/bafkreifuwl44vbl5pfqpxudgt5srojx4sgfowpitp5j6yhdpcg5qkmz7lu)
![Page 4 in the D64 Center for Digital Progress’s “Code of Conduct Democratic AI," showing a graphic of a dart hitting a hand-drawn bullseye, where the dart is humanized with a smiling face and is gesturing with a thumbs-up. Transcription of the text:
[Header] Human-centric Approach
[Text] A human-centric approach to technology means placing the dignity of every human being and the different lifestyles and experiences of people at the forefront of technological developments. Accordingly, the EU AI Regulation1 explicitly emphasises the need for human-centric design. It is stated in the report that AI systems must be designed in such a way that they take into account the diversity of our society and incorporate different needs, abilities, and expectations, including the needs of those who do not want to or cannot use AI. Human-centric design puts people at the centre of technical development. This also means taking on global responsibility: We must consider resources, working conditions, and energy con- sumption throughout the entire supply chain. AI systems rely on human labour that often remains invisible and is sometimes performed under exploitative conditions.
[Text in larger font] We are committed to the alignment of AI systems with people, with consideration for the needs of users and non-users of AI. We call for the advancement of human-centric AI development that incorporates social and environmental standards on a global scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:focvijs2anjmlfqlrxcumphd/bafkreidyuq4c2j7xkks3hymtgwxkcmmacxv4fd6fulmfpjazednnhc66dq)
