Dr. Maria Dikcis

🛠️ Workshop registration for Day 2 of the #PublicAISummit (Aug 13-14) is now open! Learn about AI ethics, documentation, creativity, and relations w/ ‪‪Randi Williams, Eryk Salvaggio, Mary Gray, Olivia Tai, Lance Eaton, Aisha Iqbal, Var Shankar, Lisa Titus, & others! Register here: publicaisummit.org

Public AI Summit A dynamic, two-day virtual AI Summit for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can...

Excited to co-organize the #PublicAISummit (Aug 13–14) with the Data Nutrition Project + metaLAB (at) Harvard's AI Pedagogy Project!
🎙️ Keynotes by Kathy Pham, @randomwalker.bsky.social, @annamillsoer.bsky.social, @mahabali.bsky.social
💻 Free + virtual
🌍 For the public
🔗 Register: publicaisummit.org

I’ll be presenting a workshop on critical pedagogies around AI images at this conference too, looking forward to it! ⬇️

Public AI Summit A dynamic, two-day virtual AI Summit for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can...

Register for a dynamic, free two-day virtual AI Summit August 13-14 for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can leverage these tools in our everyday lives.
publicaisummit.org

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

“Data centers are expected to continue trending toward using dirtier, more carbon-intensive forms of energy (like gas) to fill immediate needs, leaving clouds of emissions in their wake.”

“The carbon intensity of electricity used by data centers was 48% higher than the US average.”

In her review of Jordan Magnuson's “Game Poems,” Maria Dikcis explores video games that push back against the norms of mainstream video games by seamlessly blending the playable and the literary.

New at PB: www.publicbooks.org/gaming-the-l...