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Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power

Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power

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About

  • About overview
  • Rationale
  • Themes
  • Works Cited

Activities

  • Activities overview
  • Winter Symposium
  • Public Events
  • Summer School

Reading Group

  • Reading Group overview
  • Introduction to Seminar Theme: Encoded Behaviour
  • Introduction to Seminar Theme: Hidden Labour (Part I)
  • Introduction to Seminar Theme: Cognitive Injustice
  • Introduction to Seminar Theme: Disingenuous Rhetoric
  • Discussion of Seminar Theme: Hidden Labour (Part II)
  • Reading Group #5 on Discussion of Seminar Theme: Hidden Labour (Part II)
  • Reading Group #5 on Discussion of Seminar Theme: Hidden Labour (Part II)
  • Machinic Excitement and Anxiety in the Nineteenth Century
  • On Turing and Learning Machines
  • Scientific Management, Statistics, and the Instruments of Thought
  • AI and Knowledge
  • Surrogate Humanity
  • Race After Technology
  • Data Colonialism
  • Discriminating Data
  • Syllabus and Synthesis
  • AI and Gender Studies

Methods and Critical Issues Training

  • Methods and Critical Issues Training overview
  • AI and Gender Studies
  • History, Policy, Designing AI
  • Doing Genealogy: Knowledge, Power, AI
  • Historical Methods
  • A Feeling for the (Neural) Organism: An Interactive History of Connectionism
  • Histories of AI and Asia: A Discussion
  • Racial Capitalism and Computing Technology
  • Critical Theory and Quantification
  • Algorithmic Cultures and the Environment
  • The Politics of Time and the Future
  • 'Assistance,' Resistance and Algorithmic Cultures'
  • From Financialisation to Digitisation

Community Research Seminar

  • Community Research Seminar overview
  • Practices of Re-presentation: Zines, Visualizations & Outreach
  • AI and Music
  • AI and Machine Learning Across Borders
  • Producing Decision Acts
  • Research Award Winners
  • HoAI Research Award Winners
  • Imperial Technologies
  • Idealizations of Behavior

Co-Organisers

  • Co-Organisers overview
  • Dr Syed Mustafa Ali
  • Dr Stephanie Dick
  • Dr Sarah Dillon
  • Dr Matthew Jones
  • Dr Jonnie Penn
  • Dr Richard Staley
  • Susie Gates

Fellowships and Awards

  • Fellowships and Awards overview
  • Rebecca Charbonneau
  • Jenny Moran
  • Maya Indira Ganesh
  • Rafael Grohmann
  • Marina Hassapopoulou
  • Sanaa Khan
  • Olessya Kirtchik
  • Bruno Moreschi
  • Ranjini Canchi Raghavendra
  • Noopur Raval
  • Cierra Robson
  • Jun-E Tan
  • Di Wu
  • Sananda Sahoo

Outputs

  • Outputs overview
  • Model Syllabus
  • Community bibliography (v1)
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  • About

    About

    About overview
    • Rationale
    • Themes
    • Works Cited
  • Activities

    Activities

    Activities overview
    • Winter Symposium
    • Reading Group
    • Methods and Critical Issues Training
    • Community Research Seminar
    • Public Events
    • Summer School
  • Co-Organisers

    Co-Organisers

    Co-Organisers overview
    • Dr Syed Mustafa Ali
    • Dr Stephanie Dick
    • Dr Sarah Dillon
    • Dr Matthew Jones
    • Dr Jonnie Penn
    • Dr Richard Staley
    • Susie Gates
  • Fellowships and Awards

    Fellowships and Awards

    Fellowships and Awards overview
    • Rebecca Charbonneau
    • Jenny Moran
    • Maya Indira Ganesh
    • Rafael Grohmann
    • Marina Hassapopoulou
    • Sanaa Khan
    • Olessya Kirtchik
    • Bruno Moreschi
    • Ranjini Canchi Raghavendra
    • Noopur Raval
    • Cierra Robson
    • Jun-E Tan
    • Di Wu
    • Sananda Sahoo
  • Outputs

    Outputs

    Outputs overview
    • Model Syllabus
    • Community bibliography (v1)
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    • About
    • Activities
    • Co-Organisers
    • Fellowships and Awards
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News

30 Jun 2021

CogX 2021 - The Future of AI: Views from History

Dr Richard Staley, Dr Sarah Dillon, and Dr Jonnie Penn, co-organisers of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on the ‘Histories of Artificial Intelligence,’ share their insights from a year-long study undertaken with a range of international participants on what the histories of AI reveal about power, automation narratives, and how we mode…

CogX

Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power

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