I’m afraid that I won’t actually be on this panel tonight at Cheltenham science festival as I didn’t register that the event was going to be supported by GE aerospace, a company that creates components of F35 fighter jets that are currently being used by Israel in Gaza (1)
Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s
Join AI Needs You author
@verityharding
at
@cheltfestivals
tomorrow (9 June) at 6:45 pm BST, where she will be in conversation with
@KerryAMcInerney
on why the future of
#AI
can’t just be left to the ones building it.
For tickets, visit:
1) IT’S HERE!!! Cover reveal for our edited collection Feminist AI - we’re so excited for you to finally see this interdisciplinary volume on feminist approaches to algorithms, intelligent machines, and data driven technologies 😍
For those who’d like to learn more about the role of tech and AI in the genocide currently ongoing in Palestine I recommend Matt Mahmoudi and Antony Loewenstein’s work (3)
So excited to be a
@ahrcpress
/
@BBCRadio3
New Generation Thinker for 2023! 😍 Feel very lucky to be part of an incredible and generous cohort of thinkers and to be able to bring my work on anti-Asian racism and AI to a wider audience 😊
@LeverhulmeCFI
@Cambridge_Uni
Apologies to anyone who was planning to see us in conversation - I was really looking forward to it. The event will still be going ahead but with a different chair (2)
Hi twitter friends! I'm looking for novels written by Asian American and Asian diasporic authors that explore artificial intelligence and/or touch on posthuman themes - your recommendations would be so appreciated! 🥰😍
1/ In an actual dream come true I got to go on
@BBCRadio3
with
@kuangrf
to talk about her latest book Yellowface, and share some thoughts on digital yellowface, race and machine vision --> check it out tonight at 10pm!
My Essay with
@BBCRadio3
is now available online, and airing live this Thursday at 10:45pm! In it, I explore what two years living at sea taught me about what it would mean for AI to truly be 'sustainable'. In it I weave stories from my childhood with 1/
1/ I’m so thrilled to share that with
@HaydnBelfield
I’ll be co-chairing
@LeverhulmeCFI
’s newest research project on The Global Politics of AI 💫 . We’ll be looking at 3 main areas;
SO excited that
@thirunangai
amma is coming to the UK! 💕💫 Please attend, boost, share, RT. What a gift that we can learn from her brilliance 💙
TALKS:
- Cambridge: June 8 @ 5pm GMT
- Oxford: June 10 @ 6pm GMT
- London: June 13 @ 3:30pm GMT (RSVP: )
This piece is truly horrifying to me, to the extent that I really can't believe that
@nytimes
published it, with the author - Alexander Karp, the CEO of the surveillance firm Palantir, no less - trafficking in dangerous arms race (and other racial) tropes (1)
Uncut florid BS from a surveillance tech vendor busy marketing their "pivot to AI."
Few things more cynical than framing US v China economic jockeying for tech supremacy via statistics-at-scale (AI) as war, then offering to sell weapons to fight it.
1/ For the past six months or so I've been working with
@ambaonadventure
at
@AINowInstitute
tracking how the rhetoric of an 'AI arms race' between the US and China has been steadily escalating in US domestic/foreign policy - you can check it out here:
1) Thanks so much for the Feminist AI love! 😍 If you can't bear to wait for feminist AI content until Aug 2023, try listening to
@DrEleanorDrage
's and I's podcast, The Good Robot 🤖
This isn't something I ever imagined when Eleanor and I started the Good Robot podcast - everyone who's supported us, we're beyond grateful 💞
@DrEleanorDrage
In 2016 I interned at
@UN_Women
researching gender and representation in the media. Today I'm publishing a paper with
@stephenjcave
@DrDihal
and
@DrEleanorDrage
on the gender of AI scientists in popular film, 1920-2020 - it's incredible to see this work come full circle! 😍
Hugely excited to present some of my work on incredible books by Asian American and Asian Diasporic authors that grapple with the relationship between climate, technology, gender and race - book at the link below 👇🥰
Co-host
@KerryAMcInerney
will be speaking about climate crisis and technology in Asian American/Asian diasporic fiction at the
@BowArts
Green Lions takeover! Book here:
(1/8) Another day, another open letter about the 'severe' risks of AI 😐 Ironically
@DrEleanorDrage
and I just released our latest episode with
@TheGoodRobot1
on, you guessed it, open letters from key figures in Big Tech on the dangers posed by large AI models.
It's
#InternationalWomensDay
! If you're frustrated by how sexism, racism and so many other forms of systemic inequality continue to shape the world around us, take a look at what
@DrEleanorDrage
and I and the team at
@LeverhulmeCFI
have been doing to try to combat this in tech:
New article! Drawing on the AI Now Institute's AI arms race tracker, I argue that the 'AI arms race' rhetoric between the US and China positions technological competition as a civilisational conflict, and draws on longer histories of anti-Chinese racial rhetoric (1)
No Good Robot episode this week! Why? Because we're taking the Good Robot book ON TOUR! If you're in Stanford, NYC, DC come see us LIVE!
We're speaking at Stanford HAI
@StanfordHAI
on 4/10, NYU on 4/15, Barnard on 4/16, and Georgetown on 4/17 💃
Registration below! 👇
Come to our book launch! Monday 6pm at UCL! I have a cool new suit! We'll be doing a little workshop too, and showcasing the best ideas about good tech from the world's leading thinkers. Here's
@KerryAMcInerney
looking super cute with the book:
🥰 Love seeing the first copies of
@DrEleanorDrage
's and I's edited collection The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism reach our incredible contributors!😍And we believe every word of that bio ☀️
@leverhulmecfi
This autumn, the feminist AI online lecture series will bring together lectures by artists and scholars working at the intersection of technology, art & gender.
Join us this week for lectures by
@KerryAMcInerney
and
@carolinesinders
!
Register here:
Very much enjoyed talking to Issy Ronald at
@CNN
about AI beauty pageants - check it out below:
“I think we’re starting to increasingly lose touch with what an unedited face looks like,” Dr Kerry McInerney
@LeverhulmeCFI
@LeverhulmeTrust
First copies of
@TheGoodRobot1
book just arrived and she is stunning! 😍 The biggest thanks ever to our contributors, the team at
@BloomsburyBooks
, and illustrator Sinjin Li ❤️ Preorder your copy now at
Join us on The Good Robot podcast as we interview Matt Mahmoudi, academic and activist with Amnesty Tech, who shows us how facial recognition and other AI-powered technologies have been used to control and surveil Palestinian people - listen on YouTube, Apple, Spotify and more
NEW EPISODE: Matt Mahmoudi joins us to discuss Amnesty Tech's report 'Automating Apartheid', which examines how AI has been used to survey Palestinians in Hebron and East Jerusalem. Listen now on YouTube, Apple, Spotify and more
@DocMattMoudi
@amnesty
@AmnestyTech
@LeverhulmeCFI
New paper & report out today! “Who Makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920–2020” by
@stephenjcave
@dreleanordrage
@kerryamcinerney
and me.
* Paper:
* Report (with pictures!):
* & summary in thread ⬇️
Helping
@AINowInstitute
put together this timeline of the emergence of the AI 'arms race' rhetoric between the US and China with
@ambaonadventure
and
@sarahbmyers
was fascinating - if you're interested in the geopolitics of AI definitely check it out 🥳
@LeverhulmeCFI
I have a new paper out on the suffragettes’ embodied protests and how they used their bodies to lay claim to political space in Gender, Place and Culture - it’s open access so check it out below! 👇
@GPCjournal
NEW EPISODE! 💫 Catch Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna on our latest Good Robot Episode, 'Why You Shouldn't Believe the AI Hype'. Watch now on YouTube to see Emily and Alex's cats:
@alexhanna
@emilymbender
@LeverhulmeCFI
2) It explores a range of topics, from the history of the feminist programming language Logo and Butlerian and Berlantian approaches to AI, to the Black Marxist feminist approaches to techno-racial capitalism and an abolitionist critique of predictive policing...
3) and contains critiques of how AI can exacerbate sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, colonialism, ableism, and other forms of oppression; We hope this volume will be followed by many more books published on feminist approaches to AI, furthering and contesting...
Today we launched AI Now’s 2023 Landscape Report. In it, we put forth an actionable policy strategy to confront concentration of power in the tech industry.
Read more:
Thanks so much
@DailyZeitgeist
for having me on your show yesterday to chat about the dangers of AI hype and why we need different stories about AI that break the Hollywood Terminator narrative! Listen here:
@LeverhulmeCFI
@TheGoodRobot1
Working out date/time for our
@DAIRInstitute
#NoTechForApartheid
virtual event but I'm too excited to keep quiet until then cause our participants are
Caroline Hunter (co-founded Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement --forced the company to pull out of apartheid South Africa).
NEW EPISODE! Hear a special live episode of The Good Robot Podcast with Helen Hester at the Tech Transformed conference, where Kerry and Helen discuss whether technology can ever truly save us from housework:
4) the feminisms present in this book - that it’s a starting point, not an end one. A special shout out to
@youngcho_lee
, the Gender and Tech project RA and an indispensable part of creating this volume, and
@caimi_stefano
's incredible cover artwork...
I have some science fiction poetry out as part of the newest issue of Feminist Review
@FeministReview_
in the issue 'Feminist Futures II: Unruly Beyonds' - you can read it here!
@LeverhulmeCFI
Absolutely can't wait to speak at the Green Lions takeover of
@BowArts
for the Second Nature: imagining climate futures series! Book at the link below 👇
In
#atlantys
, Kerry McInerney considers the ways in which
#criticalutopias
reframe utopia not as a place but as an ongoing process of seeking freedom. It compels the reader to reach for a world that exists beyond its pages.
#FR136
:
🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 Hear the incredible
@Abebab
talk to us about cognition extends beyond the brain, why why we need to transform computing cultures, and why human behaviour can’t always be modelled computationally. LISTEN NOW:
1/ If you like spicy 🌶️ opinions about hot topics in the tech industry and complaining about bad films (Amazing Spider-Man 2, I’m looking at you) then listen to our newest Good Robot Hot Take on why most AI scientists on screen suck, and why this matters for industry 💫 links 👇
I feel so lucky to host The Good Robot Podcast with
@DrEleanorDrage
and get to talk to incredible scholars like Meredith Broussard! Check out our latest episode on Youtube, Apple, Spotify and more! 👇💫
@merbroussard
@LeverhulmeCFI
NEW EPISODE ALERT! It really was a dream come true to chat to the incredible Meredith Broussard about her new book, More than a Glitch, and how sexism, racism and ableism shapes the tech industry
@merbroussard
@LeverhulmeCFI
(1)
Some nice writing news - I'm now represented by
@imogen_morrell
at
@GreeneandHeaton
! Thrilled to be working with Imogen on some exciting projects, stay tuned 👀✨
I can't recommend applying for the New Gen Thinkers scheme more highly! Please reach out if you'd like to know about the application process and what it's like to be a New Gen ☺️
Applications open for the next round of New Generation Thinkers!
We’re looking for exciting research ideas from across the community to become inspiring BBC programming
Find out how to apply:
#NGT2024
It was wonderful presenting
@DrEleanorDrage
and I's research on AI-powered hiring tech's claim to debias recruitment at
@AIESConf
, esp. following a brilliant keynote by
@rajiinio
that morning! 🤩
Hiring Tech - interesting study on how companies market their products. They promise objective hiring for a more diverse workforce. It appears to me that this tech-dream becomes a nightmare helping HR to outsource a problem and shift responsibility.
#techsolutionism
@AIESConf
No episode today as our lovely co-host Eleanor is currently soaking up the sun on holiday! We'll be back next Tuesday - until then check out our new Hot Take on techno-Orientalism if you need your Good Robot fix!
@LeverhulmeCFI
@DrEleanorDrage
@KerryAMcInerney
This hour we talk about how artificial intelligence is reinforcing gender biases with
@KerryAMcInerney
, and how representations in pop culture have contributed to this model.
Listen now on
@wnpr
, or find the show later wherever you get your podcasts:
Writer twitter, I'd love your recommendations - I'm looking for non-fiction literary representation, specifically for a woman of colour agent - please let me know of any agents you rate! 😍 (for context I work on tech, feminism, race, Orientalism) Thanks in advance 🙏
3/ Back in 2021, I wrote this piece on how the 'arms race' rhetoric undermines ethical AI development (drawing on
@stephenjcave
and
@S_OhEigeartaigh
's paper), & evokes histories of racial rhetoric around the 'Yellow Peril':
@LeverhulmeCFI
1/ In
@DrEleanorDrage
and I's Hot Take on
@TheGoodRobot1
podcast, we talked about how frustrating it is that some of the industry leaders in developing large AI models like OpenAI are also starting to monopolise the conversation on AI risks. Now this:
3/ Data Colonialism and (Neo)Colonial AI: how can critical approaches to geopolitics (such as feminist approaches, postcolonialism and critical race theory) help us better understand contemporary AI geopolitics? How does the tech industry relate to or reproduce historical
My Essay with
@BBCRadio3
is now available online, and airing live this Thursday at 10:45pm! In it, I explore what two years living at sea taught me about what it would mean for AI to truly be 'sustainable'. In it I weave stories from my childhood with 1/
Twitter friends, your recommendations would be so appreciated - what are your top recommended resources and guidelines for creating just and inclusive classroom spaces and teaching practices? Personal tips and lessons learned along the way very welcomed 🙏🏼 many thanks in advance!
New BBC piece on AI & adult entertainment
There is a risk that retrograde gender stereotypes about sex and pleasure get encoded into sex chatbots, says Dr Kerry McInerney
Thank you so much
@XineYaoPhD
not just for this tweet but for doing so much to create caring, vibrant spaces for WOC 🥹 I loved speaking in community with other early-career WOC scholars at Xine's book launch for their award-winning book Disaffected - recording linked below 👇
2/ I'd also highly recommend Amba's excellent analysis on how this rhetoric is used to undermine AI governance mechanisms and regulatory control, available here:
Asian soup spoons are so much better for the task of soup it's nuts. Western soup spoons are awful. The west is clearly unserious about the way it consumes soup.
Thanks so much
@BIASProjectEU
for highlighting
@DrEleanorDrage
and I's work on why we don't think that AI-powered hiring tools can debias recruitment (as they claim to do)!
3/ Also check out
@AINowInstitute
's 2023 landscape report, specifically the section on how Big Tech uses its financial capital to impede and undercut regulation like the EU AI Act:
@ambaonadventure
@sarahbmyers
4/ Finally I've been working further on this topic with
@DesirableAI
at
@LeverhulmeCFI
, as well as producing radio content with
@BBCRadio3
as part of the New Generation Thinkers scheme for 2023 - watch this space for more work on anti-Asian racism, geopolitics, and AI! 👀