Digital phantoms are virtual representations of the human body used in medical research to test equipment, train medical professionals and develop or validate a...

Guest post by Jonathan W. Y. Gray. How do researchers, journalists, and artists work with archived pages from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine? What kinds of tools, methods, and approaches do th...

January 13, 17:30-19:00 (CEST): Vector Media This talk presents a new history and theory of the vector space in contemporary artificial intelligence systems. I will argue that the inevitable bias of s...

Abstracts are due by January 16, 2026. Today public opinion on generative artificial intelligence is deeply divided. Techno-optimistic promises clash with ethical critiques, against the backdrop of...

<p>Would you like to teach cutting-edge theories, computational methods, and questions in Critical Data & AI? Then we have the perfect challenge for you!</p>

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November 12, 17-18:30 (CEST): On reading machine learning One of the strengths of Critical AI studies has been a rapid development of methods for addressing the different social and political objects ...

GroenLinks-PvdA, D66 en de VVD worden in de antwoorden op algemene politieke vragen het vaakst genoemd. Kleinere partijen komen veel minder vaak aan bod.

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

New £4 million programme funds early career researchers in the UK, US and Canada to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science.

Louis Ravn is a PhD Candidate on Deep Culture at the University of Amsterdam, working in the fields of science and technology studies and critical data/AI studies. Moreover, he is assistant editor for...

This chapter examines abstraction as a central principle of computing, not merely as a cognitive skill or epistemological category, but as a material and organizational practice that structures how so...

Researchers in the University of York’s Department of Sociology will lead one of the first large-scale, systematic social science studies of synthetic data.

Harking back to Langdon Winner's now classic essay “Do artifacts have politics?,” my aim in this article is to ask a very similar question—namely, do artif...

This paper examines ambiguity within AI practice, arguing for an ethics of AI which stays with fundamental ambiguities and accounts for their complex socio-mate...

Synthetic data - artificially produced data used for various data science tasks - have become the subject of intense scholarly interest, engendering both hope and hype in fields like machine learning ...

Le médialab reçoit Anna Schjøtt Hansen et Dieuwertje Luitse pour le prochain séminaire du 3 juin 2025. Elles feront une présentation d'ouverture sur les politiques d'évaluation de l'apprentissage auto...

Large and powerful language models such as OpenAI’s GPT model family, Google’s LaMDA and BERT or Meta’s LlaMA are integral to many applications, such as translation, summarization or language generati...

This one-day conference will reflexively examine generative AI as sociotechnical devices, discussing its effects on scientific work and its epistemological and social implications. The presentations w...

Affective computing applications promise to decode human emotional expressions and provide objective insights into users’ affective experience, ranging from frustration and boredom to states of clinic...

Is the data good enough for training purposes? Does the model perform accurately enough? Is the error rate low enough? Such questions of ‘good enough’ are at ...

This commentary situates the epistemic values of machine learning’s culture of benchmarking and evaluation within larger temporal structures. Beyond questions of validity, whether model comparisons ar...

Invited lecture by Wendy Chun & Matt Canute on 'AI and the (Re)Shaping of Intelligence' Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Professor in the Schoo...

Invited lecture by Wendy Chun & Matt Canute on 'AI and the (Re)Shaping of Intelligence' Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Professor in the Schoo...

Outcome-prediction models can harm patients even when they have good accuracy, as shown in a recent Patterns paper by Van Amsterdam et al. In this preview, we consider the ethical and empirical implic...

Genome sequencing results and single-cell transcriptomics continue to produce findings that challenge the idea that cancer is purely a ‘genetic disease’. This Essay delves into cancer omics data that ...

The concept of alignment has undergone a remarkable rise in recent years to take center stage in the ethics of artificial intelligence. There are now numerous philosophical studies of the values that ...