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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 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

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Outputs overview Model Syllabus Community bibliography (v1)
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About

About overview
    Rationale Themes Works Cited

Activities

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

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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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…

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Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power

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