Delighted that my contribution and the submission with Kate Milner, Martin Parker, @kyrill.bsky.social, Anna-Maria Sichani and @paulawest.bsky.social as part of @braiduk.bsky.social are cited in the report on AI and creativity of the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights. 🔗 tinyurl.com/mr27r6h2

Some ideas on Ilyenkov and artificial intelligence youtu.be/Pqn7IF_8LMY?...

My paper on Vygotsky's theory of the emotions and their connection with meaning

Some reflections on disability and technology by way of Vygotsky, Ilyenkov and Sellars. youtu.be/hClB8PZ461M?...

Researchers are increasingly making a distinction between *explanation* of AI and *understanding* of AI. Explanations can map without being understood by users. What should our criteria be for understandability? Pragmatic approaches think of this in terms of what we can do by manipulating the system

Great presentations at the RAI skills projects workshop at Glasgow Uni. Konstantina Martzoukou shares the plethora of classroom activities and materials she and her team have created to encourage secondary student critical engagement with Gen AI

Fascinating presentation by Geoff Cox and Annie Davey at the RAI skills workshop on teaching AI. This project encouraged PGCE students to sculpt and draw what they conceive of as ‘inside the black box’

"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI" www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines... this is a damning report

I presented on AI and energy sharing at this year’s HM conference. Philosopher Evald Ilyenkov draws a distinction between representations that help us orient and express our active will and rise to which we conform without gaining understanding of underlying processes.

My interviews with Ezequiel Di Paolo : “Marxism and Science from an Enactive Perspective” marxismandsciences.org/wp-content/u... #PhilSci