Simone Natale

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Ab sofort ist die Anmeldung offen für die Tagung 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃 – 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 vom 04.–06.12.25 mit & in der #experimenta Heilbronn!

Offen für alle Interessierten aus Praxis und Forschung, die mit und zu Künstlicher Intelligenz arbeiten.

#genAI

Would love to be in such good company (including the ghost)

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Can global #AI ethics & policy account for local lives? Payal Arora & @snatale.bsky.social call for grounding AI debates in everyday cultures. By contextualising tech through media & cultural studies, they rethink AI’s role in global-local dynamics. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Can machines think? Keynote Dr. @snatale.bsky.social on #AI & deception: how do we understand and define deception and non-deception in an age where machines are ubiquitous?

Keynote speeches Prof. Dr. Madalina Busuioc Full Professor of Public Governance in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Tentative title: “Towards a Healt…

Meet our keynotes!
🙌We’re happy to welcome
@snatale.bsky.social in Rotterdam as keynote for session “AI and the automation of deception“
📅 May 22, 10:00 – 11:15 CEST
📍 De Bibliotheek Rotterdam
Read more: automatingdemocracy.wordpress.com/keynote-spee...
📢Stay tuned for the next updates!

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What can power geometries tell us about #AI? @snatale.bsky.social et al. argue that AI is shaped by global-local power relations—linking agency, inequality & tech governance across scales. A call to rethink global AI dynamics. #OnlineFirst
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Das Bild zeigt eine Ankündigung für die transformativ Tagung von RHET AI Center und experimenta. Am oberen Rand ist das Logo der transformativ-Tagung zu sehen mit dem Untertitel „Sharing Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence“ In der unteren Bildhälfte steht „04.-06. Dezember 2025, www.transformativ.science“

𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃 – 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

👩‍💻👩‍🎓🕵‍♀️ Über und mit #KI wird viel geredet und geforscht – sei es in #Wissenschaftskommunikation, im #Journalismus oder in den Geisteswissenschaften. Bei #transformativ mit der Experimenta HN wollen wir diese Perspektiven zusammenbringen

Opening of my book "Deceitful Media: AI and Social Life after the Turing Test" (Oxford University Press 2021). Four years later, it looks less imaginative as science fiction, but fortunately there's still the crime story angle...

Automating Democracy: AI Use Between Social Justice and Social Control

The CFP for our @ecreacomdem.bsky.social section conference is open until Jan 31! Still plenty of time to submit your 250 word abstracts! We have an exciting line-up of keynotes by @snatale.bsky.social & @mbusuioc.bsky.social & other events; all info here: automatingdemocracy.wordpress.com

Thanks to Mansa Narain for this taking the time to write this review of Deceitful Media:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...

Some things one writes require more work, take more time, but also make more fun than others:

Digital media and the banalization of deception
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Steven Umbrello & Simone Natale, Reframing Deception for Human-Centered AI - PhilPapers The philosophical, legal, and HCI literature concerning artificial intelligence (AI) has explored the ethical implications and values that these systems will impact on. One aspect that has been only p...

Is AI deceit "banal" or "strong" deception? Interesting new paper from Steven Umbrello and @snatale.bsky.social, building on the latter's book, Deceitful Media: AI and Social Life after the Turing Test (2021). #AIethics

Six provocations for metaverse datafication: an emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon Although the ‘metaverse’ is still the feverish pipedream of tech companies and venture capitalists, it is also a powerful imaginary for channelling enormous resources towards deepening and extendin...

#OutNow in #iCS
In "Six Provocations for Metaverse Datafication," Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory, and Stefano Canali analyze how metaverse data shapes knowledge, privacy, and social inequality, highlighting its cultural, technological, and scholarly impacts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Automating Democracy: AI Use Between Social Justice and Social Control

📢CFP ComDem #ECREA conference "Automating Democracy: #AI Use Between #SocialJustice & Social Control"
📍Erasmus uni Rotterdam
📅22-23 May
⏳Deadline Jan 15
Guest speakers: @snatale.bsky.social & @mbusuioc.bsky.social
Discount registration fees available for PhDs & students!
tinyurl.com/5k3exu3d

A video recording of the first day of the "Generative AI and the creative industries" conference is available here: media.unito.it?content=11304 featuring among others @katemiltner.bsky.social programme below 👇

CFP @ComDem_ECREAconference "Automating Democracy: #AI Use Between #SocialJustice &Social Control"
⏳submission close Jan 15
I will be one of the two keynotes together with Madalina Busuioc
automatingdemocracy.wordpress.com

Veronica Barassi reflecting on the “epochal transformation” by which the amount of data we produced skyrocketed… she identifies this turn with the emergence of social media. At “Il mondo nuovo” conference in Turin www.didattica-est.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl...

congrats!

Picture of a white woman, with long brown hair and glasses, holding a copy of a book titled "Appropriate Negotiate Challenge"

Box with several copies of the same book, titled "Appropriate Negotiate Challenge"

Still so exciting - and surreal - to see this book out in the world!

Get your copy from @ucpress.bsky.social here: www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...

Hi there! Here's someone attempting to escape from Musk but also from Linkedin