This short commentary maps the convergence of industrial AI infrastructures and national energy systems, with a focus on the role that nuclear power plays in these ambitions. Drawing from examples ...

On this day, 40 years ago, a councillor cut the ceremonial ribbon and opened a section of cycle path in north Edinburgh. This was a rather special bit of cycle path however as it hadn’t been …

This short commentary maps the convergence of industrial AI infrastructures and national energy systems, with a focus on the role that nuclear power plays in these ambitions. Drawing from examples ...

A far-right rogues gallery of racists came to Newcastle on Saturday 27 September - and yes, racists is the correct term. Or fascists...

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.

This article proposes three distinct perspectives on and approaches to the study of hybridisation across society, industries, and academia enabled by General Purpose Technologies like AI and blockc...

Labour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

This paper examines the application of evolutionary analogy in AI (artificial intelligence) research, focussing on narratives that perpetuate individuated and autonomous imaginaries of AI systems thro...

This talk by Ludovico Rella discusses how tracking energy consumption traces the material political economy of Edge and Cloud AI

This article proposes three distinct perspectives on and approaches to the study of hybridisation across society, industries, and academia enabled by General Purpose Technologies like AI and blockc...

Organizers: nanna bonde thylstrup, University of Copenhagen (Nannab@hum.ku.dk) Katie MacKinnon, University of Copenhagen (kam@hum.ku.dk) Submission link: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submission...

What is the relationship between ideas of sameness and difference for machine learning and AI? Algorithms are often understood to participate in the continual d...

The computational logics of large language models (LLMs) or generative AI – from the early models of CLIP and BERT to the explosion of text and image …