Join us in celebrating the launch of Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI, edited by Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Monique Mann and Declan Kuch published open access by the Institute of Network Cultures in late 2022.
This talk attends to how urban platforms materially ‘show up’ in cities, and where they materialize. Drawing on a range of empirical instances from North American cities, the talk situates and traces urban platform materialities in three registers: aesthetics, spatiality, and amenitization.
In this talk, Prof Seth Lazar will discuss his recent paper which highlights the responsibility of algorithmic intermediaries in governing the public sphere through their architecture, amplification algorithms, and moderation practices.
Join us for a public talk with Ausma Bernot on China's queer social sorting methods that include both automated decision-making and the use of human labour in enforcing queer “othering”.
This year marks two important anniversaries: 25 years since the Google company was founded, and the 30th anniversary of the release of the first web search engine, JumpStation. This one-day interdisciplinary symposium in Melbourne and online brings together leading thinkers to examine the past, present and future of web search - Google, ChatGPT, Bing, and beyond.
Join us on for a lively debate at the Kaleide Theatre on the implications of Generative AI and its societal impact. Featuring experts in the field, this debate will shed light on the serious hazards and enormous potential of Generative AI.
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and Telstra invite you to attend the online launch of the first Mapping the Digital Gap Annual Outcomes Report. Hear from leading industry and academic experts on the first year findings from ten diverse remote First Nations communities across Australia.
Convened by ADM+S Centre Directors Prof Jean Burgess FAHA and Prof Julian Thomas FAHA, the 54th Annual Academy of the Humanities Symposium will explore the possibilities and hazards of automation, and the complexities of human-machine relations.
Join Maxigas in discussing the role of academic labs in bringing about desired futures. The “science shop” movement pioneered in the Netherlands directly linked academic institutions with social movements to counterbalance techniques of management tied to capital.
The third instalment in our Electronics Ecologies series, ENERGY foregrounds the work of engineers and activists influencing the trajectory of resource use in today’s tech industry.
For the past years, we have faced a repeated experience when presenting our work on prisoners training AI. Scholars in the fields of critical data and algorithm studies start nodding, as if they already knew what we were going to say. What else is prison data labor than an effort to harness the prison-industrial complex in the service of the global data extraction machinery?
The final instalment in our Electronics Ecologies series, MANUFACTURING brings together scholars in geography, media and labour studies to discuss the growth in electronics and chip manufacturing in East and South East Asia.