Once again, everyone is now worried there's an AI bubble. It is, and it will deflate. But deflating doesn't undo the harmful effects, as @histoftech.bsky.social and I wrote back in 2024… ash.harvard.edu/resources/wa...
Who's Who of AI
🌶 David Gray Widder
Assistant Prof at UT Austin's iSchool.
Big Tech, political economy, AI hype, AI in War
trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me
exCornell/CMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs.
davidwidder.me
What they're sharing
Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate – Ash Center ash.harvard.edu
AI interdisciplinarity as critical technical practice | Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society | Cambridge Core cambridge.org
csm.transistor.fm
Articles & links
A short reflection on "interdisciplinary" in AI, from Lucy Suchman, @siree.sh, and myself: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🌶 David Gray Widder reposted
Some weekend listening for you! Nice to sit down with @alixdunn.com to talk about the toxic love training that gave us AI: Big Tech, the US Military, and the Academy… csm.transistor.fm/episodes/com...
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