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Ewa Luger

@ewaluger.bsky.social
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Professor of Human-Data Interaction, University of Edinburgh; Codirector @braiduk.bsky.social; & www.responsiblenlp.org Researches AI/HCI

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/09/2026
Great breakdown of all the v v wild statements in this interview
In the interview, Huang also (unfairly) attributes record renewable energy purchases to AI. He blames climate action for stalling the construction of energy infrastructure, presumably for fossil fuels.
I think we just have to acknowledge that we got ourselves really gummed up in climate change and sustainable energy, and as a result, we just didn’t plan enough energy production.
Then he proclaims that AI is “the best opportunity we have” to “turn a corner on climate change, if you want a future that’s sustainable.” He sees AI accelerating demand for clean energy in the long term. But AI already needs a lot of energy now, and fossil fuels are what we’ve got.
“A more polluting AI buildout is not inevitable.”
But renewables were already the fastest-growing sources of new electricity generation before the recent generative AI boom. It’s generally cheaper to generate power from a wind or solar farm than a new gas or coal plant. But Trump, who lined his campaign coffers with money from the fossil fuel industry, is incentivizing the development of gas and coal plants to power data centers.
And now, data centers are in turn spurring the development of far more fossil fuel infrastructure. Air pollution associated with AI could lead to up to 1,300 premature deaths and more than $20 billion in public health costs by 2028, according to a study from UC Riverside, Caltech, and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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johnvines.bsky.social @johnvines.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If you have any questions, check the FAQ on our website or contact any of us on the CDT Team (including @suchprettyeyes.bsky.social @melissaterras.bsky.social @ewaluger.bsky.social @catlai.bsky.social).
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Octavia Field Reid @octavia-fr.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Our latest polling shows what the UK public want for Christmas: 🌲🎁🔥 - 89% think it is important to regulate AI independently. - 82% want mandatory safety testing. - 86% want known risks reported to government or regulators. Read more here: www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...
Photo from the Office showing Pam, Jim and Michael holding hands overlaid with text: UK PUBLIC, INDEPENDENT REGULATOR and TRANSPARENCY MECHANISMS and "I love you guys so much..."
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Want to add your voice to UK discussions around responsible AI? We @braiduk.bsky.social are looking for people interested in joining our stakeholder forum.
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
New research job alert! Come and join the amazing @braiduk.bsky.social team, working with me and @shannonvallor.bsky.social. The post is exploring the social return of AI investments. Feel free to reach out, and apply here - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...
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Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Is also the case that, if the AI bubble comes, it will sting www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch... we've seen highly valued companies that can't make a profit before
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Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.
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Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org · 08/09/2025
Having admitted that it used pirated works to build its LLM, in "the first class action settlement centered on AI and copyright in the United States", #Anthropic have now agreed to pay compensation to authors. It is unlikely to be the last. www.wired.com/story/anthro...
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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement
Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.
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Scottish Parliament Futures Team @spfuturesteam.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Will AI support or supplant human participation in politics? Join the compelling conversation chaired by @maggiechapman.bsky.social MSP with our panellists Robert Moran, @pipt.bsky.social, @profvaccari.bsky.social and @ewaluger.bsky.social 📆 Aug 20, 5:30pm ‐ 7:00pm 🎫 t.co/jOCnetKs19
Human-like robot at a podium with microphones, delivering a speech against a colourful blue and yellow background.
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“AI could result in ‘unequal care provision for women’”. Another reminder that, without responsible adoption, AI just amplifies our past bad practice and reintroduces it into our present. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds
Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Very excited to be recruiting for a Communication and Impact Officer to work with me, @ewaluger.bsky.social and the whole @braiduk.bsky.social team in Edinburgh through late 2028! Opportunity is Grade 7 and applications close 1st Sept
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Communication and Impact Officer
The BRAID Communications and Impact Manager will play a pivotal role in enhancing BRAID’s visibility, engagement, and overall impact. The post-holder will contribute to a stakeholder-focussed communic...
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The @braiduk.bsky.social team is looking for an administrator to join our project family. Working with me and @shannonvallor.bsky.social and a lovely widerteam. Do please circulate to anyone who might be interested. Deadline 5th August! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Project Administrator
We are looking for someone to join the BRAID team as Project Administrator. The successful candidate will work closely with other team members to ensure the smooth running of the BRAID Programme, prov...
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Which jacket was designed by AI? ‘Unbelievably Creative’ asking the BRAID community questions about the role of AI in creativity @braiduk.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Cracking on with the first panel of the day (AI & Society) at our @braiduk.bsky.social community event. Starting with an overview of the @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social AI public attitudes survey. @shannonvallor.bsky.social
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Kicking off our celebration of the first three years of @braiduk.bsky.social in Manchester at the Lowry and it’s going to be a fantastic day! So proud of all the artists and researchers who make up this amazing community
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!
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Global Majority Fellowships 2025-2026
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Join the Early Career Research Network in September for the National Postdoctoral Conference which aims to celebrate, unite, and empower postdoctoral researchers from across the UK. Register here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/natio...
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National Postdoctoral Conference for ECRs
The National Postdoctoral Conference is a free event taking place in September 2025, open to ECRs from SHAPE and STEM disciplines.
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Dawn Turner @dadair.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Fitting for today’s cat fight.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 27/05/2025
The Labour government’s plan for economic growth, public service reform, and thus its electoral hopes, rest on the country adopting AI. But its strategy of breathlessly bigging up bleeding-edge AI and pursuing massive data center investments is not cutting through to voters, MPs fear.
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Labour’s AI gold rush gets stuck in the mud
Ministers are preparing a string of AI announcements for early June, but voters are skeptical about the technology. That leaves the ruling Labour Party with a huge problem.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Electronic Legal Deposit materials are back online in 5 legal deposit reading rooms after the British Library cyberattack! Hurrah. But not in London yet. ICYDK, this encompasses vast swathes of modern digital texts including journal papers & books, & other media. Great to see it back!
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Guides: Electronic legal deposit: Introduction
Access electronic legal deposit at partner libraries
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“We are told repeatedly that AI will eventually help us solve social issues, including climate change...while AI infrastructures are right now burdening communities and undermining climate goals,” D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social tells @leximcmenamin.com @teenvogue.com. www.teenvogue.com/story/chatgp...
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ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?
One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Really great talk and discussion with @dynarch.bsky.social. The full recording will be available soon.
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Design Informatics @designinf.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Join next @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Hybrid Seminar where @dynarch.bsky.social will provide key insights from her scoping BRAID project ‘Creating a dynamic #archive of Responsible AI Ecosystems in the context of #CreativeAI’ 📅 Thu 8 May ⏰ 4 – 5pm 📍@inspacegallery.bsky.social/ Zoom 🎟 edin.ac/3CoJbuZ
Infographic of BRAID x IDI seminar with Lydia Farina on 8th May, 4-5pm and her picture at the bottom right.
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Prof. Marion Oswald, MBE @marion-infolaw.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
New CETaS report 'UK Public Attitudes to National Security Data Processing: Assessing Human and Machine Intrusion' (Powell, Oswald & Janjeva) published today. Based on a nationally representative survey and a citizens panel cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications... 1/3
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UK Public Attitudes to National Security Data Processing: Assessing Human and Machine Intrusion
Emerging technologies are transforming national security data processing, as many analytical tasks can now be automated – including through machine learning
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Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org · 17/04/2025
Excellent research workshop last night at the RSA in London on 'AI and the Novel', led by @clemicollett.bsky.social as part of the work she is doing with us and @mctd.bsky.social, with funding from @braiduk.bsky.social. Rich discussions about risks and opportunities across the field!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/04/2025
Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
But their defense also hinges on the argument that the individual books themselves are, essentially, worthless—one expert witness for Meta describes that the influence of a single book in LLM pretraining “adjusted its performance by less than 0.06% on industry standard benchmarks, a meaningless change no different from noise.” Furthermore, Meta says, that while the company “has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in LLM development,” they see no market in paying authors to license their books because “for there to be a market, there must be something of value to exchange, but none of Plaintiffs works has economic value, individually, as training data.” (An argument essential to fair use, but that also sounds like a scaled up version of a scenario in which the New York Philharmonic board argues against paying individual members of the orchestra because the organization spent a lot of money on the upkeep of David Geffen Hall, and also, a solo bassoon cannot play every part in “The Rite of Spring.”)
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Amazing Carole Cadwalladr telling it like it is. A digital coup that we need to find everyday ways to resist.
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The US government holds a tremendous amount of data about US citizens. Now, The Trump administration is trying to access that data and link it together. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
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How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
Databases that Elon Musk’s team is trying to access include more than 300 personal details about members of the U.S. public.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
In 2025 top 3 uses of GenAI are: therapy/companionship, organising life, and finding purpose. I think something has gone pretty badly wrong here. hbr.org/2025/04/how-...
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How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025
Last year, HBR published a piece on how people are using gen AI. Much has happened over the past 12 months. We now have Custom GPTs—AI tailored for narrower sets of requirements. New kids are on the b...
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Pip Thornton @pipt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
There's been a robot invasion @byleaveswelive.bsky.social! Do pop in and have a go on the interactive exhibits incl. the LEX-9000 automatic writing machine first debuted at the @edbookfest.bsky.social - now part of Edinburgh Science Festival 🤖
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Truly looking forward to this talk. Please join us online!
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
They changed the name from “homicide prediction project”, to “sharing data to improve risk assessment”. Sure, that makes it better. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Not sure if Palantir is a household name. It's time to resuscitate + integrate a decade's worth of warnings about these folks — e.g.,... www.wired.com/story/how-pe... www.bloomberg.com/features/201... www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How Peter Thiel's Secretive Data Company Pushed Into Policing | Backchannel
A Backchannel investigation reveals the problems Palantir poses for law enforcement.
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Big thanks to everyone who attended and put forward their ideas and feedback – stay tuned for more! @ewaluger.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We are building such a fabulous community. So happy to have the chance to catch up with everyone in person.
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Laurence D @laurencediver.net · 31/03/2025
New MIT study: "Overall, higher daily usage [of chat bots] – across all modalities and conversation types – correlated with higher loneliness, dependence, and problematic use, and lower socialization." www.media.mit.edu/publications...
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How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Chatbot Use: A Longitudinal Controlled Study – MIT Media Lab
AI chatbots, especially those with voice capabilities, have become increasingly human-like, with more users seeking emotional support and companionship from th…
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Really happy to see this published. What do UK people really think about AI? Follow the link to find out.
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
After that data breach in 2023 I thought 23andMe had already folded. But seems the company and all its (genetic) data is now open to the highest bidder. I foresee no problems here.
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Surely this is not the time to be *easing* taxes on tech companies. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer is warned against ‘appeasing’ Trump with tax cut for US tech firms
Labour MP and Lib Dem leader express concern social media companies could be let off hook just as benefits are cut
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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tanya O’Carroll, has succeeded in forcing Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. This is a small victory, but let's not forget that, like Schrems fights - It took her 3 years and many resources (money, networks & knowledge) which most ppl don't have. -> techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/m...
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Meta settles UK 'right to object to ad-tracking' lawsuit by agreeing not to track plaintiff | TechCrunch
A human rights campaigner, Tanya O'Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreement
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Blimey. Looks like pretty much ALL of my books have been pirated by LibGen - the place that’s been scraped by generative AI developers. (thanks @gregjenner.bsky.social): www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
”’Google argues that publishers “vastly overestimate” the value of their journalism to its business;” - At some point we/consumers have to protest in the only way we can. Find another search engine and use it. Just do it. techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/g...
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Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets | TechCrunch
Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 months in eight* markets in Europe
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Thanks very much to @anandarutherford.bsky.social for a brilliant talk on ‘Do ‘Words Matter’ in Machine Learning?’ and thanks to @ewaluger.bsky.social for hosting. The recorded seminar will be on our website soon if you missed out! @designinf.bsky.social
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Muffy Calder making the case for taxonomy. The term AI being far too broad to enable the kinds of meaningful dialogues that are now needed.
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Martin Parker’s asking us to think about the implications of composing and experimenting with AI in music and what this teaches us about valuable and more meaningful interactions between our digital tools and each other.
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Christopher Burr on the benefits of having a plurality of tools available for assurance purposes and how open source resources support these endeavours.
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We are delighted to be partnering with RAiUK to deliver today’s Ensuring Responsible AI Through Methodological Diversity event in Edinburgh. We look forward to welcoming some of you there for insightful keynotes and dynamic discussion #Community #WorkingTogether #DiversityinAI #ResponsibleAI
Hanna Barakat + AIxDESIGN & Archival Images of AI / Better Images of AI / Data Mining 1 / CC-BY 4.0 This is part of a triptych series: a visual exploration into ""new frontier"" of AI technology. The base of these images depicts “The Ascent of Mont Blanc”— an effort to summit the mountain, painted in 1855 by John MacGregor. Reappropriating the intention of these paintings, the collage overlays images of wires and circuits that are “melting the ice”—an ironic commentary on “progress” in the name of environmental extraction The juxtaposition of gradient backgrounds with layered microchips, wires, and cell towers offers an ironic visual commentary on digital colonialism and the visual language of high-tech companies. The use of playful colors contrasts with the fragile foundations of AI infrastructure, rooted in digital colonialism and climate costs. This work positions AI as a system built on labor, material, and capital—revealing the often invisible labor in electronics manufacturing throughout the Global Majority.
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If you’re enjoying Claire Patterson-Young’s contributions you can register here for her talk happening on 27 March: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/braid-x-id...
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Design Informatics @designinf.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Join us in the next @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Webinar, where Ananda Rutherford from @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social will share the topic of 'Do "Words Matter" in Machine Learning?'. 📅 Thurs 13 Mar 2025 ⏰ 4 – 5pm 📍 Online via Zoom only 🎟 edin.ac/4i4FnPc
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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Very much worth a listen - “This isn’t a political crisis: it’s a geopolitical, technological, national security, information, transnational crisis that is now impacting politics”
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