Helena Machado

Our new book is out! 🎊😄 Great adventure with @SusanaMRDSilva @Palgrave link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Another article in our 'AI refusal: a cultural politics' special issue coming out in the journal 'cultural geographies'.

Our new article is out! Proposing a creative-critical approach to resistance to facial recognition. doi.org/10.1177/147447… thanks to @CulturalSage @ThomasDekeyser, Pip and Casey for the very generous support! With funding of @ERC_Research

'Academic Times,' an open access book by @Ulrike_Felt, explores the hidden politics of time—the chronopolitics—that profoundly shapes the contours of academic life and knowledge production in contemporary universities. bit.ly/43Mj1Nv #OA

AIDA Seminar with Amélia Fiske📣 Participatory Algorithmic Justice: using ethnography and graphic art to think about justice in AI 🗓️May 20th, Tuesday, at 10:30 AM (PT) 💻Open access 🔗Link: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/95084785813?… 📍Organized by AIDA (Social Sciences Research Network)

🌟Join us to talk all things AI regulation next Wednesday 18 December 2 pm BST online Registration here tickettailor.com/events/technol… #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIact

🇮🇱🇳🇱 Israeli hooligans who were rampaging around Amsterdam last night ended up beaten by a local Maroccan population What really happend? Thread 1/

I have a new opinion piece out in 'AI & Society' with @Markiewhitehead, asking: what work does the prefix 'artificial' in 'artificial intelligence' do? We argue it is ontologically, and morally, problematic as it obscures human-tech entanglements. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Awarding a Nobel Prize to Geoffrey Hinton "rewards foundational work in a technology that has become part of everyday life," writes @strwbilly. "It is also sure to shine an even brighter light on Hinton’s more scaremongering opinions" about AI. technologyreview.com/2024/10/08/110…

AIDA Seminar October 11, at 11:00 AM. Online format. Open access. Access link: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/99761260302?… Organized by: AIDA (Social Sciences Research Network) & ICS (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal).

Em dia de manifestação de um partido proto-fascista que, apoiado por movimentos neo-fascistas violentos, vai para a rua semear medo e difundir desinformação sobre a suposta ameaça imigrante, é importante trazer este debate para o plano dos factos. Menos fachos, mais factos.

Our special issue "Agency in Datafied Societies" has now been published in @Convergence_NMT—most of the articles #OpenAccess. It is about #agency with regard to #algorithms, #ComAI, personal assistants, service technologies, #social #media and more: journals.sagepub.com/toc/cona/30/3

@tsantospereira Um caso exemplar para uma análise sociológica: desresponsabilização, falta de investimento financeiro e de recursos (responsabilidade do ministro), apanágio de remodelações administrativas como solução mágica e perpetuação do culto do estrangeirismo

“No tempo que sobrou para falar da ciência em Portugal”… A primeira frase da notícia identifica o sintoma. Mas o Ministro apresenta também um diagnóstico e caminhos. Ministro da Ciência diz que a FCT deve ser “uma agência mais independente” publico.pt/2024/07/24/cie…

@psa_TIP @NatalieJester 🙏Thank you very much for sharing! My @PolicySociety article 'Governance fix? Power and politics in controversies about governing generative AI' available open access here doi.org/10.1093/polsoc… #generativeAI

🚨 [AI GOVERNANCE] @accessnow publishes the report "Regulatory Mapping on AI in Latin America," and it's a must-read for everyone interested in global AI governance. Quotes: "The regulatory framework for AI in the region is in its infancy. None of the countries analysed has a specific law in place to regulate the use and development of this technology, although all have introduced regulatory proposals in their respective parliaments or legislative bodies. Most Latin American countries propose regulations inspired by or with important similarities to the proposed EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). Some countries, such as Argentina or Brazil, have initiatives that propose regulations for AI in relation to certain subjects or contexts, in addition to ones that provide a general regulation of the discipline. Others, such as Chile, Costa Rica, and Colombia, have all proposed the creation of specialised authorities to oversee and supervise the implementation and development of these technologies. In this section, we provide an analysis of the main draft laws that have been presented in the eight countries selected in this report." (page 55) - "The drive towards AI regulation in Latin America is underway. This is evidenced by the existence of multiple draft laws, national strategies, and the prolific production of soft law documents and governance projects. It is foreseeable that in the coming years these efforts will be stepped up, so it will be necessary to sustain the focus on human rights in the development of public policy in AI. To this end, decision-makers in different spheres, both public and private, must adopt a perspective focused on compliance with the international, regional, and local human rights framework. The benefits that AI technologies can offer society are no justification for disregarding this set of fundamental rules or for legitimising harm to individuals." (page 90) ➡ The report was authored by @fgiandana in collaboration with @PisanuGaspar, Ángela Alarcón, Agneris Sampieri, @YamconYe, @djleufer & @willmaryescoto. ➡ Link to the report below. ➡ To stay up to date with the latest developments in AI policy & regulation, join 29,500+ people who subscribe to my newsletter (link below).

📢 Happy Monday, and new paper is out! ‘Generative AI and the politics of visibility’ by Tarleton Gillespie. Read more about what kinds of narratives generative AI toos like to reproduce and what they tend not to 🔗: buff.ly/4bQRegh #GenerativeAI #normativity

This article moves away from the idea that ethics is a technology that is the responsibility of technologists alone. Revisit Margarita Boenig-Liptsin's work about ethics in a datafied world at the following link: buff.ly/3Y6JpN3 #dataethics #relationalethics