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Who's Who of AI
Dan McQuillan
https://danmcquillan.org/
What they're sharing
Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts theregister.com
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Critical AI Network Virtual Assembly - Live Programme - Google Drive docs.google.com
PROGRAMME: “How do we break something that is already broken?” Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, CPCT (27-29 May, 2026; online) cpct.uk
From Resisting AI to Decomputing eventbrite.com.au
New chapter: The New Spirit of Education and the Techno-Politics of AI – Meaning Making meaningmaking.it
Articles & links
Very late notice, but I'll be doing an informal talk and discussion for SPINE (Speculative Inquiry into Ethics) tomorrow on 'AI, Decomputing and its Discontents'. Open registration events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efc27d...
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Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, 27th-29th May, online. 27 amazing talks + 3 keynotes + plenary discussions. AI/Education, AI/Law+Politics, AI/Environment. Registration & network sign-up: cpct.uk/2026/05/09/p... Full programme: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, 27th-29th May, online. 27 amazing talks + 3 keynotes + plenary discussions. AI/Education, AI/Law+Politics, AI/Environment. Registration & network sign-up: cpct.uk/2026/05/09/p... Full programme: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
If you're interested in this talk but can't make it today, I'll be re-hashing a version with more emphasis on care services for the Newcastle Youth Studies seminar tomorrow (Wednesday) at 9am GMT. Registration here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/from-resis...
Ron Salaj has posted his chapter on 'The New Spirit of Education and the Techno-Politics of AI' which goes from a genealogy of machines-for-learning to an analysis of AI Ed in terms of 'seriality' (Sarte) and 'interpassivity ' (Pfaller) meaningmaking.it/new-chapter-...
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It's bizarre that 'transparency' remains part of Responsible AI narratives. This is the most mask-off moment in decades; the technopolitical hegemony is very transparent about the fact that we & the rest of the biosphere are disposable accessories to their desire for domination.
Advocating for "AI sovereignty" is another way to call for a war economy.
FAccT and its predecessor FAT/ML are very poorly acronymed gatherings, as the point of their algorithmic objects of study is, in a specific technopolitical sense, to drain Fairness, distance Accountability and misdirect Transparency.
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