Alondra Nelson

So much attention has been paid to the Musk v. Altman trial. But real accountability for the AI industry will not come from a billionaire mudfight. It will come from the movements around the world resisting the empires of AI. My op-ed for @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/…

The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian theguardian.com

In "Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI," @cyberlyra.bsky.social, Ben Shestakofsky, Alex Taylor, and I are particularly keen to understand how the project of AI involves numerous "decoys" that misdirect critics' attention, undermining efforts to hold AI to account. arxi…

[2604.16106] Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability arxiv.org

People often pitch AI as unprecedented. But what if we already have the organizational tools to evaluate & negotiate its use? Our new book Auditing AI opens in the 1980s with the story of the US Network for Organ Sharing how how they test & decide on their algorithms direct.mi…

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"Auditing AI" is open access. We wrote it for leaders / organizers of all kinds who want to *do something* about AI, so if you want to read it for yourself, you can find it here. If you find it useful and share it with your communities, let us know! direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...

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Is the purpose of science and 🧪 training to churn out papers or to create a healthy knowledge community? In a @nature.com comment, @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I check in on how AI helps with the former while jeopardizing the latter 1/

The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails | Nature nature.com

If you're in Oxford, I'll be giving this lecture tomorrow (riffing on my and Cosma's work, obvs, with shoutouts to other co-conspirators too) www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/ai-so...

AI as Social Technology | Blavatnik School of Government bsg.ox.ac.uk

Pope Leo's not the only one concerned with ensuring AI benefits everyone. Professor @alondra.bsky.social joins @djrothkopf.bsky.social to explain the need for auditing artificial intelligence, the need for responsible regulation, and more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... yo…

Pope Leo Trolls Trump on AI…an… - DSR's Siliconsciousness - Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com

This piece by @alondra.bsky.social is essential reading. The imperatives are imperative! www.amacad.org/publication/...

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