Reposted by Alex TaylorJan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this. 81798381
Reposted by Alex TaylorBRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Reminder @alex-taylor.bsky.social is speaking *this* Thursday discussing his BRAID project on red teaming & outsourcing labour in the Global South. Make sure you don't miss out - get your hybrid ticket now 👉 rb.gy/64oljm @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edcdcs.bsky.social @uoe-gail.bsky.socialrb.gyBRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar - Alex TaylorThursday, 30th January 2025 [Inspace / Zoom] 196
Reposted by Alex TaylorBRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 15/01/2025With the global push for AI innovation there's never been a better time for international collaboration on responsible AI. We start the new year with a #BRAID call for collaboration between UK and US institutions: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... #responsibleAI #fundingukri.orgUK Research and InnovationUKRI convenes, catalyses and invests in close collaboration with others to build a thriving, inclusive research and innovation system. 01611
Reposted by Alex TaylorAI Ethics & Society @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social · 13/01/2025🎤 Interested in relational entanglements of care and repair in tech? Apply for our 4S panel ‘Echoes of Care and Repair in Times of Broken Machines’ (panel 86), at 4S 2025 (Seattle, WA) - apply here www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope... 173
Reposted by Alex TaylorMartha Dark @marthadark.bsky.social · 19/12/2024ALL 144 Facebook content moderators assessed by a psychiatrist in Kenya have PTSD because of their work moderating content for Facebook. Let that sink in. www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...theguardian.comMore than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSDExclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya 085
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Love ❤️ that Mary Douglas has a Google Scholar profile. She was and is a beacon 💡 020
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024👇 This short documentary video 📹 on drone delivery in Logan, Aus, is a must 🔥 011
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024“We should be concerned abt the closure of the EngLit course at Canterbury...This is more than an institutional failure. It signals a cultural shift that risks leaving future generations without the critical, empathetic + intellectual tools provided by literature. www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisisWith degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture 010
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024📣 Reflections from our *AI in the Street* project in The Conversation (@theconversation.com), by inimitable project lead @noortjem.bsky.social. theconversation.com/five-ways-yo...theconversation.comFive ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)From facial recognition to delivery drones, cities around the UK are already trialling AI tech. 0102
Reposted by Alex TaylorJournal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Our latest Special Issue is out now: Digital (mis)trust: rethinking trust in digitalising societies -eds James Maguire and Kristoffer Albris www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c...tandfonline.comJournal of Cultural EconomyDigital (mis)trust: rethinking trust in digitalizing societies; Guest Editors: James Maguire and Kristoffer Albris. Volume 17, Issue 6 of Journal of Cultural Economy 11410
Reposted by Alex TaylorDr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is looking for a Senior Policy Officer in Online Safety. Full time, salary £42,593-£48,245. Deadline - 3rd December 2024 ico.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ICO/jo...ico.wd3.myworkdayjobs.comSenior Policy Officer - Online SafetySenior Policy Officer - Online Safety Full time / Part time Salary: £42,593 - £48,245, with potential for further progression to £54,317 with our pay progression scheme. Location: Hybrid Contracted to... 011
Reposted by Alex TaylorMilagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 18/11/2024📢 This Thursday, I’ll be speaking at the European Parliament alongside MEP Leïla Chaibi & Prof. Antonio Casilli. We’ll be joined by data workers from 🇪🇸🇨🇴🇮🇹🇺🇸🇸🇾 to discuss the labor behind AI and what worker-centric regulation could look like. 🎥 Watch live, 2:30pm CET: www.youtube.com/live/U4692yg... 0103
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Nice @gleemie.bsky.social 🙂 1. The operationalising of responsibility in AI (w/ particular interest in capitalist global supply chains) 2. hmm, if I had the internet off switch 🎚️in front of me, would/could I do it? 💥 030
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 13/11/2024📣 If you’re in Edinburgh next Monday be sure to make this👇 We’re feeling very lucky to be having danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social join us! 0216
Reposted by Alex TaylorShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Looking forward to this! 051
Reposted by Alex TaylorEwa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Speaking this Thursday @4pm (GMT) is the brilliant Dr Peaks Krafft. Join us online, or in person if you’re Edinburgh based! 066
Reposted by Alex TaylorDuncan Wilson @duncanwilson78.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Come and work with me! I mean, that's the main draw, right? 074
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 14/10/2024📣 Call now open for fully funded PhDs in 🔥Responsible NLP at University of Edinburgh! 📣 An awesome opportunity to look at AI through a critical lens. I'm especially keen to talk w/ applicants coming to this from #sts #sociology #digitalhumanities #feministtechnoscience www.responsiblenlp.orgresponsiblenlp.orgThe UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world NLP is based at the University of Edinburgh. Applications are now open for funded PhD studentships starting as part of the September 2025 cohort. Our deadline is 9th January 2025. 285
Reposted by Alex TaylorDesign Informatics @designinf.bsky.social · 02/10/2024Join our next event of the @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Hybrid Seminar Series where @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social will present her talk, ‘What is the value of integrating AI into creative processes?’. 📅 Thu 10 Oct 2024 ⏰ 4 – 5pm 📍 @inspacegallery.bsky.social / Zoom 🎟 edin.ac/3TRU4eq 144
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2024📢 So happy with the ✨awesome✨ website reporting our @braiduk.bsky.social project #AI-in-the-street. Taken aback by how much we’ve done! See: careful.industries/ai-in-the-st... Thnx to @carefultrouble.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social + many more! 11711
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2024Spectacular morning in #Edinburgh. Sights from Blackford Hill always beautiful. 040
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 07/09/2024Join our event "AI in the street: prompts for debate" Thurs, 12 Sept 18:30, Science Gallery Lndn w/ @noortjem.bsky.social @mayameme.bsky.social @mrsbunz.bsky.social & other lovelies Register 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207 262
Reposted by Alex TaylorMercedes 🤦♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social · 05/09/2024Join our event "AI in the street: prompts for debate" Thurs, 12 Sept 6.30pm at Science Gallery London with @NoortjeMarres & @mayameme & other lovely humans. Please register 👉https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-street-at-science-gallery-london-tickets-970353422207 Thx @Braid_UK 045
Reposted by Alex TaylorKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 14/05/2024The Critical Data Studies research cluster is growing-- what a crew! efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/cr...efi.ed.ac.ukCritical Data Studies - Edinburgh Futures InstituteResearching the political and social dimensions of data-driven and AI technology. 072
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 14/05/2024👇 I went to Summer Hall for the first time with Karen last week. So awesome and so upset to hear there’s the risk of closure! Nooo! 110
Reposted by Alex TaylorNoortje Marres @noortjem.bsky.social · 30/04/2024Where are AI’s publics? Are they latent in mundane acts of participation? Is public formation hampered by AI’s individualising interfaces? We will discuss in Edinburgh on June 5 in a BRAID event organised by @alxndrt.bsky.social with A Powell and B Nissen et al: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-are-... 073
Reposted by Alex TaylorKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 29/03/2024Job vacancies: 2 x Postdoctoral Researchers digitalgood.net/job-vacancie...digitalgood.netJob vacancies: 2 x Postdoctoral Researchers - ESRC Digital Good NetworkExciting opportunities if you have a PhD or are in the process of submitting a PhD in a relevant area. 014
Alex Taylor @alex-taylor.bsky.social · 24/03/2024“.. yet, hopelessness is not … fatalist; a kind of radical hopelessness that dares refuse the old promissory and progressive logics of capitalist growth could open political horizons. Such openings need not be novel…” “Immediacy or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism” @annakornbluh.bsky.social 091