Such a privilege to speak about AI literacy, the role of journalists in fostering it, and the impact of AI on the media ecosystem at the International Federation of Journalists annual meeting.

Simulating the dead with AI “crea una situazione molto difficile” as indicated by my intense expression 🫥 An interview on AI, griefbots, and the future of memorialization here, as part of Fjona Cakalli’s longer reportage for RaiPlay (in Italian): raiplay.it/video/2024/06/…

GPT-5 confirmed to confidently try to complete 11 tasks simultaneously then email you 6 months later explaining it’s had a mental breakdown

If you missed any of the AI and the Digital seminars - feat. N. Katheryn Hayles, Sherry Turkle, Lorraine Daston, and Matteo Pasquinelli among other amazing guests - you can now see all the recordings here: desirableai.com/ai-and-the-dig…

NEW EPISODE! Hear a special live episode of The Good Robot Podcast with Helen Hester at the Tech Transformed conference, where Kerry and Helen discuss whether technology can ever truly save us from housework: youtube.com/watch?v=g2uf7I…

Some very wise purchasers of "The Atomic Human" sensibly choosing to buy "The AI Mirror" by Shannon Vallor Recommended by an algorithm ... (what could possibly go wrong?) Here's the link to Shannon's book: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

"What is today called “artificial intelligence” should be counted as a Copernican Trauma in the making. Trauma brings grief. Kübler-Ross’s stages of grief provide a useful typology of the Western theory of AI." Benjamin Bratton for Noema noemamag.com/the-five-stage…

Should we use #AI to resurrect digital “ghosts” of the dead? My interview with Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basinska about the ethics of griefbots is out in the new print issue of Science News Dr Tomasz Hollanek Read it online here: sciencenews.org/article/artifi…

ATTENTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY JOURNALISTS! Are you interested in writing for the Observer? I am looking for new writers and ideas for the Science & Technology pages of the Observer New Review. For an idea of the types of pieces we publish, please take a look at this thread…

Our book Feeding the Machine is now out in North America! Very excited for you to check it out. We've even changed all of our s's to z's so you won't even know how much we love UK English.

If you ever used or produced a “toolkit” for ethical AI (or wondered why the “toolkit” has become the dominant instrument of ethics for AI), this one’s for you - my new paper on the “ethico-politics of design toolkits”: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

UK education system gives such a poor account of media studies. My 16y son studied media for GCSE. Unlike the Geography, History or English curriculum, he would come home and talk about theorists and approaches. He would cite Laura Mulvey & Stuart Hall as he passed ads 1/2

New Paper Alert! Our Researcher, Dr Tomasz Hollanek, writes about ‘toolkittification’ of AI ethics, and suggests how to meaningful adopt the toolkit format without overselling its potential Dr Tomasz Hollanek link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Listen to one of our academics Dr Tomasz Hollanek talk to ITV News about his research on the ethics of using AI to replicate the personalities of the deceased: ow.ly/R5n850T3fw6

New documentary on AI girlfriends feat. Dr Kerry McInerney (Mackereth) and I interacting with one of them… youtu.be/-kcyjOjkwXo?fe…

Call for Papers! Our Research Assistant, Yulu Pi, is co-organising a workshop for CSCW "From Stem to Stern: Contestability Along AI Value Chains" Applications are due 15th of September; more info through the link: aspiring-steed-7fc.notion.site/From-Stem-to-S…

Great to welcome all the delegates to Jesus College for the Intellectual Forum supported Social AI Policy Forum, convened by Aisha Sobey Dr Tomasz Hollanek from Future Intelligence and Jesus College I'm really looking forward to seeing what comes out of it! lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Our team is working with Islamic Bioethics (Mohammed Ghaly) & team CILE Center to deliver this series on interfaith and intercultural perspectives on AI ethics - sign up to attend online 👇

Are you aware some people have actually turned their deceased loved ones into AI chatbots? 🎙 I recently spoke to Cambridge AI ethicists Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska, PhD and Dr Tomasz Hollanek , PhD about this. Watch here now and subscribe: lnkd.in/eUxFKa3F