Resources Gina Neff & Peter Nagy - Conjuring algorithms: Understanding the tech industry as stage magicians. LudditesLawsuits against OpenAI for copyright infringementBilly Perrigo - OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less ToxicNick Couldry & Ulises Ali Mejias - The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for CapitalismGoogle claims Smart Compose saves 2 billion characters from being typed each week - Details from a 2018 Founder's Letter Johanna Drucker - Performative Materiality Ronald Deibert - Reset: Reclaiming the internet for civil societyChatGPT water consumptionWater Scarcity - United Nations Mel Hogan - Data Flows and Water WoesAnatomy of an AI System Emma Strubell, Ananya Ganesh & Andrew McCallum - Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP. Quantifying the emissions cost of training an AI model Discussion Segments1:36: Introduction 3:27: Pracademic vs. Changemaker 6:36: Research Impact9:28: Personal relationship with AI 12:45: How big tech markets their AI products 16:30: AI & Accountability 18:15: How AI is perceived by the public 25:30 Consequences of AI 29:12 AI and Climate Change38:55 Maren Walker intro 39:30 How a student uses AI 41:07: Researching AI for school 46:50: Automation vs. Augmentation Crystal Chokshi's Research Chokshi, C. (2021). In other words: Smart Compose and the consequences of writing in the age of AI. Culture Machine, 20. https://culturemachine.net/vol-20-machine-intelligences/in-other-words-smart-compose-and-the-consequences-of-writing-in-the-age-of-ai-crystal-chokshi/Chokshi, C. (2024). X-gram and/as techsposure: Spelling out the climate consequences of generative AI. Journal of Digital Social Research, 6(4), 118-133. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v6i440480Chokshi, C., & Mansell, R.E. [Eds.] (forthcoming). The need to rename tech. Palgrave Macmillan. (This book explores words that fool us into thinking the digital technologies we use every day are beautiful, benign, and consequence-free)

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