The narrative of "runaway AI" is widely shared and inhibits effective discussion, design and democratic governance of these technologies. Nina Frahm and I explain why in a new commentary for the New Atlantis The New Atlantis Post-growth Innovation Lab thenewatlantis.com/publications/h…

📢The #EASST4S2024 Call for Open Panels is open! Submit your proposal until October 23rd via: easst4s2024.net/callforopenpan… This joint #conference of EASST and The Society for Social Studies of Science is hosted by Athena Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🗓️ 16-19 July 2024 Questions? ✉️[email protected]

. Beyond kindness: “We argue that many of the crises currently afflicting science can be associated with a present failure of science to sufficiently embody its own values” interesting perspective Mareike Smolka Annika Lübbert Et al

Join us at EASST-4S 2024 to explore innovation ecosystems. Christian Herzog, Phil Macnaghten, Mark Ryan, Philipp Neudert, Laurens Klerkx, Merel Noorman, Bernd Carsten Stahl and I convene an open panel. Please submit your abstract here until February 12: nomadit.co.uk/conference/eas…

The ambition of COP28 UAE was to make finance available, accessible, but it failed to deliver on the scale and representation needed. We must urgently prioritize inclusive climate finance. We call on you World Bank IMF World Economic Forum to lead the way. #ProjectDandelion

Our last issue of 2023 is out now. A special issue on ”Alignment Work for the Movement of Knowledge” sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/?acceptCookies…

I'm increasingly concerned by this use of the phrase "responsible AI", to describe a piece of software rather than a process. I hope that we at rai.ac.uk aren't contributing to the problem but I suspect we need to do more to clarify. Gopal Ramchurn Prof Gina Neff

The first act in a large research project geared towards understanding diversity in conceptualisations of 'good science' is out: a review of the dimensions of responsible research systems and cultures: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10… 1/

Critical responsible innovation – the role(s) of the researcher tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

That’s an excellent JRI editorial review of 10 years of responsible innovation scholarship. What could be called Critical Innovation Studies area ⁦Journal of Responsible Innovation⁩ ⁦mario pansera 🍉⁩ ⁦Thanos Fragkandreas⁩ ⁦Innogen Institute⁩ ⁦Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD)⁩ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Jessica Mesman and Mareike Smolka published a chapter titled ‘Practicing Care-as-Affect and Engagement-as-Critique: Careful Engagement in Socio-Technical Integration Research and Video-Reflexive Ethnography’ bit.ly/48Dhokk ⬇️

Proud to be a contributor (chapter 41, Science Advice) to the forthcoming ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES #STS Ulrike Felt Ulrike Felt & Alan Irwin eds. Edward Elgar (2024)

I have SUCH smart friends 😊 Working on or interested in AI and ethics? check out Tricia Griffin 's new paper about the ethical agency of AI developers. She argues that responsible tech development requires that we recognise and support the cultivation of ethical wisdom 👇

We have so many great guests coming out on Peoples & Things soon. Today, I'm interviewing Cyrus Mody, an old warm colleague of mine, about his book, The Squares, and some of his other work, and I'm kind of giddy about it. maastrichtuniversity.nl/ccm-mody

Very much looking forward to this book.

What ever happened to the Bielefeld school of STS?