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The Craft of Science with AI: Evidence, Judgment, and Practice | Public Panel
As AI is integrated into scientific practice, the practice of science itself is changing. AI models that summarize, categorize, simulate, and predict not only stand to accelerate scientific research;…
Mental Health, Chatbots, and the Future of Care | Databite No. 165
While many people have found benefit and respite in using chatbots for companionship, mental health, and emotional support, the widespread adoption of these tools has also resulted in harm and raised…
(404) Job Not Found: The AI Literacy Trap at Work | Databite No. 164
In her new report (404) Job Not Found: What Workforce Training Can’t Fix for Black Atlantans in the Age of AI, Data & Society researcher Anuli Akanegbu provides the first ethnographic examination…
One Year Later: What We’ve Learned About Trump’s AI Agenda | Databite No. 163
The second Trump administration has launched a full-scale effort to achieve “unchallenged global technological dominance.” It is accelerating the construction of AI infrastructure, from opening up…
Standing Up for Human Value in the AI Economy | 'Understanding AI' — NYPL x D&S Event Series [4]
Generative AI models are marketed as the next revolution in workplace automation, but they ultimately rely on human labor — from the people labeling content and checking outputs, to the content…
Reorienting AI for the Public Interest | 'Understanding AI' — NYPL x D&S Event Series [3]
The concentration of power and lack of regulation in the technology industry directly shapes how AI is designed and deployed, and whose interests it serves. That means decisions about these tools…
The Environmental Costs of AI Are Surging – What Now? | 'Understanding AI' — NYPL x D&S Event Series [2]
Artificial intelligence technologies run on powerful computers that require vast amounts of energy, water, and critical minerals. As AI use grows, so does its environmental footprint. Yet there is…
Understanding AI: What the Public Needs to Know | 'Understanding AI' — NYPL x D&S Event Series [1]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping many aspects of our daily lives: from the way people are hired for jobs, to how housing applications are reviewed, to how government services are delivered…
Climate-Conscious Tech Workers: Turning the Tide from Within | Databite 162
In this moment of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism, there are thousands of tech workers who are concerned about the realities of climate change and see the tech industry’s growing role…
A Roadmap for Rewiring Democracy in the Age of AI | Book Talk
Democracy faces challenges worldwide, and artificial intelligence has become an increasing part of that. In their book Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and…
Challenging AI Hype and Tech Industry Power | Book Talk
Visit datasociety.net for to learn more about this Book Talk's speakers, access resources and referenced materials, and to purchase copies of The AI Con and Empire of AI.Purchase copies of these…
What is Work Worth? Exploring What Generative AI Means for Workers’ Lives and Labor | Keynote Event
Recorded on May 6, 2025 at The Greene Space in NYC Featuring Dr. Julián Posada and Aiha Nguyen Resources and recordings are available here: https://datasociety.net/events/what-is-work-worth/
[Live] The Cloud is Dead: Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction
BooksDeath Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (Tamara Kneese)The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City (Alexis…
Resisting Predatory Data | Book Talk
At the turn of the 20th century, the anti-immigration and eugenics movements used data about marginalized people to fuel racial divisions and political violence under the guise of streamlining…
AI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & Society
Two years ago, we were told that ‘prompt engineer’ would be a real job — well, it’s not. Is generative AI actually going to replace and transform human labour, or is this just another shallow…
Connective (t)Issues: Stories of Digitality, Infrastructures, and Resistance | Public Panel
Physical and digital infrastructures have raised tensions around the world, seeding land disputes, climate effects, and disrupting social fabrics. Yet they are also intertwined with myths of…
[Databite No. 161] Red Teaming Generative AI Harm
What exactly is generative AI (genAI) red-teaming? What strategies and standards should guide its implementation? And how can it protect the public interest? In this conversation, Lama Ahmad, Camille…
The Taiwan Bottleneck w/ Brian Chen
Do you ever wonder how semiconductors (AKA chips) — the things that make up the fine tapestry of modern life — get made? And why does so much chip production bottleneck in Taiwan?Luckily, this is a…
Living in the Shadow of AI and Data (Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia) | Network Book Forum
On November 14, in a conversation moderated by Data & Society Senior Researcher Ranjit Singh, Madhumita Murgia and Armin Samii discussed Murgia’s new book, Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of…
Data & Society at 10: Foreseeable Futures
When Data & Society was founded ten years ago, it was rooted in the insight that data-centric technologies have broad and often unseen impacts on society — and that to better understand those…
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