mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Trained as an anthropologist, former tech worker, now... who knows?
I like climate stuff, justice, permaculture, ecosystem nerding, and a good cat or fungi pic.
Sometimes I post about tech stuff, because we never get over the trauma of our former careers, do we?
Profile picture is of a woman looking through a window, with the partially cropped out top that says "fieldwork won't wait."
#sts #anthropology #responsibleAI #climate #sustainability #AIethics #climatejustice
What's the cost of AI living rent-free in our heads?
🚨 New piece out in 4S Backchannels 🚨
~24% of last year's 4S papers were about AI (I counted).
An entire field devoted to the social scientific study of science and technology-and 24% of us chose AI. Including me.
Yes, there's lots of good critical work out there, but there's a cost to giving it this much regard at all.
As STS folks like to say, It matters what matters we think other matters with.