Fenwick McKelvey

Excited to have co-authored a major piece of the #ShapingAI project. Our piece, Freezing out: Legacy media's shaping of AI as a cold controversy, that I think is a reflection on the dynamics that have made AI's controversiality uncontroversial in Canada.

Read it here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231219242

And please share.

Thanks to Guillaume Dandurand and Jonathan Roberge too for co-writing!

cc @cka@aoir.social @NoortjeMarres@mstdn.social

I'm giving a talk today at 1pm called A Copy of What? ChatGPT and the Commons today as part of the Humber Presidential Lecture Series. You can live stream the talk here:

https://liberalarts.humber.ca/current-students/resources/conferences-and-lectures/presidents-lecture-series.html

Parsing the fallout from the AI board split, try our paper! We argue that AI involves competing, but reenforcing, governmental projects, one existential, the other mundane. That latter seems to be winning, neither seems great.

Check it out:

Recursive power: AI governmentality and technofutures
by
Fenwick McKelvey and Jonathan Roberge
in
Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence

https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781803928562/book-part-9781803928562-7.xml

Pre-print here: http://www.fenwickmckelvey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/RECURSIVE-POWER-PREPRINT.pdf

Finding fake AI generated on Amazon is surprisingly fun and easy. After @verge@mastodon.social coverage (https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036156/openai-policy-amazon-ai-listings) I found examples (https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=cannot+fulfill+this+request&crid=34D2L1IC2F566&sprefix=cannot+fulfill+this+request+%2Caps%2C50&ref=nb_sb_noss) but Amazon is quick to ban the search terms!

@jfmezei@mstdn.ca But only the new episode. I want some back episodes!

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