How can we evaluate GenAI as cultural technology? #GenAI is cultural & social but most eval lean on technical benchmarks. In a new paper with 30+ researchers we introduce a framework that evaluates GenAI not only on performance, but on meaning 📖 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #academicbluesky

Our team’s research on how people interact with mental health chatbots is more about the people than the bots, researcher @briana-v.bsky.social‬ writes. datasociety.net/points/what-...

📣 Tomorrow! Join us for the next AI & Society Salon – June 11 at 5 PM CET. Marco Donnarumma brings performance art and movement research into strange encounters with sound, light, robotics and AI. 🗓️ June 11, 17h00 CET ➡️ Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-... #CultureAndTech #AI #ArtAndTech

♦️ Our next #AI & #Society Salon is soon 🎙️ Join us on 11 June 17:00 CET for a Salon with Marco Donnarumma, performance artist and researcher. We will discuss human body, tech and power. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

Why we cannot separate Art from the Artist? in @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/ai-doesnt-pa...

Sure, duolingo showed us just how well we can speak a foreign language using it. fortune.com/2025/05/20/d...

Large survey conducted by Bookbub on how authors view generative AI. It shows that authors are divided on its use and the importance of ethical concerns among authors who don't use it. insights.bookbub.com/how-authors-... #AI #GenAI #Writing #CreativeIndustry

📢 Excited to share our #CHI2025 paper "Generative AI in Documentary Photography: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges for Visual Storytelling" by Lenny Martinez, Sarah Fdili Alaoui and myself. ➡️ Pre-print: hal.science/hal-04982451...

AI Toolbox for Performing Arts, by Daniel Bisig: https:// gitlab.zhdk.ch/dbisig/aitoolbox #AI #PerformingArts #Creativity

Happening today!

🚨 Event Update: New Date! 🚨 Our online Salon, a dialogue with @carolinesinders.bsky.social on #AI & #Society, has been postponed and will now take place on March 5, 6pm CET. Info, registration, Zoom link: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-... Previous salons: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/

📢 This is happening tomorrow! Zoom link via registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-... #AI #Art #Society

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era.

Our next #AI & #Society Salon is soon 🎙️ Join us on 18 February 18:00pm CET for a Salon with @carolinesinders.bsky.social, artist and researcher. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

As #AI gains a growing space in creation and art, how are the public discourses on AI in the arts shaping creative work? It what we investigate in a new paper with @katecrawford.bsky.social , @qveraliao.bsky.social, Gonzalo Ramos and Jenny Williams : arxiv.org/abs/2502.03940

It’s no coincidence that massive assaults on human rights are happening at the same time as assertions about protecting machine rights.

Happy to find out this morning that that our #CHI2025 paper made it! ✨ The paper is about Generative AI in Documentary Photography. And it is the first paper of my PhD Student Lenny Martinez, co-supervised with Sarah Fdili Alaoui.

If you're looking for a documentary about music, this is it: "Sisters with Transistors - Electronic music's unsung heroines" sisterswithtransistors.com #electronicmusic #music #documentary

Free our Feeds : an initiative to save social media from billionaire capture. The idea is to use bluesky's AT protocol to build an ecosystem of apps (bluesky being one, but opened to other innovations): freeourfeeds.com Taylor Lorenz's article about it: www.usermag.co/p/freeourfee... #Socialmedia

Found this interesting quote while re-reading 'Beware of fictional AI narratives' by Isabella Hermann : "All these anthropomorphized artificial beings [Ava, Joi, David] are a projection canvas for human issues, not robot issues" www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Good start for 2025: Meta ends fact-checking, concedes that there will be more bad stuff on its platforms and adds a chief executive of ultimate fighting championship to its board www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

It's time for another exciting round of "CEO said a thing!" journalism, where a tech CEO says a thing, then the press trips over itself to repeat that thing largely devoid of critical thinking or historical context

The TOCHI special issue is out! It examines the rich and intricate histories of uncertainty in design—its philosophical implications, its critical role in prototyping, and its growing significance in more agentive systems intertwined with other beings. Check it out: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #HCI

A striking example of AI narratives in art

✨ Our AI & Society Salon with artist @lindadounia.bsky.social is now online: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/... Previous episodes: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/ Salons organised w/ Jenny Williams, Gonzalo Ramos, @qveraliao.bsky.social, @katecrawford.bsky.social

“I’ve been skeptical about the moral machines project, because it usually ends up just trying to crowdsource moral judgments [and train AI on them] — but the whole point is that the crowd isn’t always right!…it’s a very dangerous thing to crowdsource moral judgments.” www.vox.com/future-perfe...

This Wednesday 4 Dec! Join us for a discussion with Linda Dounia Rebeiz, artist, designer and writer. The discussion is online and participatory. You can register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

🔔 Paper alert 📄 New piece in #design #research: “Prototyping with Uncertainties: Data, Algorithms, and Research through Design" dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... 👥 With Elisa Giaccardi, Dave Murray-Rust, and Johan Redström.

We are organizing a third Salon with Linda Dounia Rebeiz to talk about her work and vision of #AI, #Art and #Technocapitalism. 🗓️ Dec 4, 5pm CEST 📻 Online, info and registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-... 👥 w/ Gonzalo Ramos, Jenny Williams, @katecrawford.bsky.social & Vera Liao