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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Can we automate how AI models “understand” (see, know, identify, contrast) “culture” the way humans can? That’s the agenda for today. Slides by Diyi Yang captures some of the challenges and thinking.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Cut your Indian friends and colleagues some slack today. 😭

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

At #CVPR2025 today at a workshop by folks from Mila Quebec titled VLMs 4All sites.google.com/view/vlms4all I’ll be posting here from the workshop today Already I’m so taken by the very open and welcoming space the organisers have created

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VLMs-4-All 2025

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Ohhh you got tickets to it !!! 🫰

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Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy @mctd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We hosted a convo with @mayameme.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social to celebrate her new book on ethics, driverless cars, and AI futures. She spoke about agency, design and how we think about new tech, and moral decision-making. Overview of the convo ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/auto-correct...

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

No matter if you can’t come to my book launch event on Thursday in Cambridge; @dmuravyov.bsky.social interviewed me for the Network Cultures blog and we had a really great chat. Great working with you again Dmitry 🙏🏾✨☺️

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This is going to be an amazing book!

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

@bitnik.bsky.social will support projects against Tech Facism. “The proposed artistic projects can be tactical, performative or metaphoric, among others. We are looking for daily acts of resistance, interventions, how-tos” Full call: error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Thank you ! 🙏🏾🫶🥹 And to YOU TOO 🙌🏾

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

lol wasn’t following u till now

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🙏🏾🥹🙏🏾🥲🙏🏾🫶🙏🏾

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I mean what is a scarf with pockets

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Sometimes you see someone on the bus wearing something silly and you know they were lured and scammed by an Instagram ad.

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Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"We should not take AI companies’ word for it when they tell us where we are headed. It is up to society and its institutions to steer innovation away from risks and toward benefits." A great piece with no mention of stakeholders and a shoutout to @mayameme.bsky.social new book Auto-Correct.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Within AI innovation, there's a strong technical idea of AI 'safety' that would love to be able to contain risk and ethical concerns. (@mayameme.bsky.social's excellent new book discusses the fantasy of ethics-by-design)

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Nature have picked up our survey. We think it's the largest survey of AI researchers ever conducted. Here's a quick thread on some of the headlines @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Will AI improve your life? Here’s what 4,000 researchers think

Scientists working on artificial intelligence are more confident than the public that the technology will benefit people.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

DEI in corporate India survives www.thehindu.com/society/dei-... “Indian businesses are in such critical need of talent that they must necessarily act to expand their talent pools — something borne out by an uncoordinated but widespread focus on DEI”

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India Inc.’s DEI push: Amid Trump’s DEI rollback in the U.S., corporates in India commit to stay true to the diversity and inclusion agenda

DEI specialists in India navigate challenges as U.S. companies scale back programs, while Indian firms lead inclusion efforts.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The UK AISI is doing something very interesting with their societal resilience grants program by (re)framing AI safety as a societal issue and by supporting research from a number of sectors that have a deep understanding of safety. I’m thrilled to be a new grantee www.aisi.gov.uk/work/strengt...

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Strengthening AI Resilience | AISI Work

20 Systemic Safety Grant Awardees Announced

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I just got copies of my first book 🥹

Indian woman in a leather jacket and sporting long red bead earrings is holding up a copy of a book called Auto-correct

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

She’s here ! Pub day was March 25th. Thank you for so many pre-orders! I’m looking forward to talks and workshops in the coming year. Reach out if you want to invite me to talk about Ai, machine ethics, and the sociotechnical. artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...

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AUTO-CORRECT – ArtEZPress

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

And then there’s the companion, Look of Silence, which LARPs accountability as a negotiation with personal trauma

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Closer and closer .. Next they will be boxed and shipped to the UK ☺️

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I’m sad to hear about the passing of Jonathan Sterne. I was on a panel with him once during the pandemic and felt I had achieved something important by virtue of digital proximity 😅 To those who didn’t know his work, this post from Duke will lead you to discover this stellar media theorist.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

They assure me it’s real and happening somewhere in a press in the Netherlands. Thank you to so many of you who pre-ordered. It’s coming! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...

book cover in purple and green tones being printed

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Delighted and honored to be with @thaophan.bsky.social in meatspace and @zentralwerkstatt.org virtually next week at Goldsmiths to share something quite different for the first time

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Perfecting the right kind of grovelling tone for a FAcCT rebuttal is quite a task when you’re simultaneously trying to write a grant proposal about how awesome and urgent your future work will be

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Yay our paper got accepted so maybe I’ll be @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle this year -bc I already have US visa. Thanks for nothing, Europe: Sad to have missed 4S /Easst last year. *There are still no Schengen appointments available*

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

VFS sucks Trying to apply for a Schengen for May-June and there are no appointments ..

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 04/03/2025

So great to see this come out. At @digitalwitnesslab.org we were shocked by how easy it was to illegally purchase firearms on WhatsApp, the platform isn't even doing the bare minimum it could to prevent this. Heres the story from @restofworld.org bsky.app/profile/rest...

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

EOM. This should be a blog post and not a late night jet lagged Ted Talk. Where should I write this?

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

AI slop would be taken very seriously by a visual theorist and would not be treated like that boring person that we feel we must defend because, well, we want to show we think that all people are special.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

There’s also this piece that thoughtfully interrogates the original styleGAN paper and ‘this person does not exist’ website to ask what it means when neither the photographer nor the photo exist any more. There’s something bigger going on here than tech diffusion.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Law does not refer at all to the Big Tech influence on arts and culture. Work by K Allado MacDowell a writer and artist who set up Google’s machine art and culture program would be an obvious place to start. Esp if Law wants to talk about text generation

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Also TC works with text. Why is that in a piece abt image culture and pls don’t say “bc the models are now multi modal”. Law is possibly normalising the existence of AI visual production as legible to and in service of the Corporate Model.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This is the political economics and cultural capital end of things. I found the Ted Chiang reference odd esp as Law’s piece is mostly about language and a vague ‘humans are cool’ argument - which is not what I think TC is actually doing btw.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Law also might refer to Bourdieu and Farocki and Stuart Hall to think about how images are made with technology. They’re all different kinds of theorists but all can be read together here. I can say more and how and why.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Scholars are interested in how a societal order built on visuality is changing and how we talk about the relationship between neural net and dataset and what an image is is changing .

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

visual theorists are writing about how seeing is changing, how beholding is changing, that there is no human eye beholder. We can read Fabian Offert, Leo Impett, on the way images operate that changes how we appreciate, create, how we make truth claims, advance power.

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Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Are not really writing about “it’s humans therefore we like it and valourise it and protect it. This is an argument made by historical materialists and activists ie not people actually thinking about the experience of culture and ‘image operations’.

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