You can read the work in many ways. The vertical axis represents time, and the horizontal addresses systems in four domains: communication, computation, classification and control. You can follow a theme, a time period, or a set of ideas in any direction.
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Calculating Empires: Historical Analysis of Computing Power and Imperial Systems
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Tech discourse is often ahistorical. @TheCreaturesLab & I made this work to include longer trajectories of ideas, infrastructures, and systems of power. Calculating Empires investigates how past empires have calculated – and how they created the conditions of empire today.
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Resources on AI assistants problems and research insights
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You can read more in our article here: https://
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And here's an important article from DeepMind on the problems with AI assistants: https://
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AI Agents Disguised as Feminine Convenience Hide Their Power
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But just as secretaries were taught to hide their knowledge, AI agents are designed to make us to forget their power as they are made to fit within non-threatening, retrograde feminine tropes. These are powerful data extraction engines, sold as frictionless convenience.
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AI Assistants and the Gendered Legacy of the Secretary Role
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AI assistants invoke gendered traditions of the secretary, a figure of administrative and emotional support, often sexualized. Underpaid and undervalued, secretaries still had a lot of insight into private and commercially sensitive dealings. They had power through information.
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Sam Altman Used Scarlett Johansson Voice to Comfort AI Adoption
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Sam Altman has said as much. NYT: he told ScarJo her voice would help "consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and AI” as her voice "would be comforting to people.”
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OpenAI’s Use of Scarlett Johansson’s Voice and AI Personalization
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Why did OpenAI use Scarlett Johansson's voice? As Jessa Lingel & I discuss in our journal article on AI agents, there's a long history of using white women's voices to “personalize” a technology to make it feel safe and non-threatening while it is capturing maximum data.
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Kate Crawford discusses AI complexities with Eric Topol
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Full visual investigation on knowing machines models
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You can read the full visual investigation here: https://
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Knowing Machines investigation reveals how AI worldviews are created
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@derspiegel and @derStandardat released simultaneous stories on this Knowing Machines investigation: "How the worldview of an artificial intelligence is created." Check out the fantastic visual explainer!