Dan McQuillan

More info: www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts theregister.com

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...

Critical AI Network Virtual Assembly - Live Programme - Google Drive docs.google.com

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...

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

This looks like a well-researched and situated counter to Masley's 'do your own Qanon research' - 'The AI Data Center Water Management Challenge: A Georgia Case Study' tapsrundry.com/georgia-wate... Blunter version from the author in this pod youtube.com/watch?v=oNSQ...

Georgia Data Center Water Study - AllAI DataedX — When Will the Taps Run Dry? tapsrundry.com

This looks like a well-researched and situated counter to Masley's 'do your own Qanon research' - 'The AI Data Center Water Management Challenge: A Georgia Case Study' tapsrundry.com/georgia-wate... Blunter version from the author in this pod youtube.com/watch?v=oNSQ...

TWiGS: The AI Water Management Challenge with Masheika Allgood youtube.com

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...

From Resisting AI to Decomputing eventbrite.com.au

Book launch for 'AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability' on Wed 2nd; register for the livestream spui25.nl/programma/ai... with eds Anne Mollen & Fieke Jansen and authors Patrick Brodie, Gerwin van Schie & myself. The book is open access & downloadable from link.springer.com/b…

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Book launch for 'AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability' on Wed 2nd; register for the livestream spui25.nl/programma/ai... with eds Anne Mollen & Fieke Jansen and authors Patrick Brodie, Gerwin van Schie & myself. The book is open access & downloadable from link.springer.com/b…

AI Infrastructures and Sustainability link.springer.com

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-...

New chapter: The New Spirit of Education and the Techno-Politics of AI – Meaning Making meaningmaking.it

AlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.

Where is the university ethics committee that has stepped up to the plate and said "There's no ethical way to use Generative AI"?

Fisher/Jameson said "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". And yet, that act of imagining alternatives is urgent; if AI tells us nothing else, it tells us that capitalism is actively imagining the end of us.

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.

Hyperscalers: "We're investing more than $1 trillion in AI capital investment". Smug AI adopter: "I'm completely in charge, I just use it for brainstorming ideas". AI isn't a consumer toy, it's a push for systemic transformation that amps up alienation and climate harm.☣️

AI makes being average at [faking] any skill available to everyone [until inference prices increase]. If you take time to be good at what you do [someone will train agentic AI to imitate you] & you won't have to worry about being replaced [until your boss chooses agentic AI].

Breaking: AI companies announce that hyperscale datacentres will switch to a behind-the-meter power supply based on burning books. As the same books have already been sliced & scanned for model training, the companies describe this a sustainable closed loop. 📚🔥☠️

Advocating for "AI sovereignty" is another way to call for a war economy.

Seems like agentic AI's capacity to really f*ck things up isn't limited to deleting your personal $HOME directory.

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.