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Jul 9
🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman & I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda.
Basic research, lethal effects: Military artificial intelligence research funding as enlistment -...
From journals.sagepub.com
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Nov 5
am now a PhD advisor, can confirm
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Sep 21, 2022
tip to new PhD students from a 5th year: *show your advisor tables* it really doesn't matter what you put in the tables. PhD advisors LOVE tables.
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Nov 4
We have a democratic governor in Texas: Gina Hinojosa, who staked her campaign on public education. Governor appoints university regents, who have been destroying our universities. This meaningfully changes things for universities, students, & us early career faculty here.
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Nov 2
Pleased to share that I will be a visiting fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities for the Easter '27 term. There, I will examine how the US Military conceives of the "other" as it funds and builds AI systems. I'll be in Europe for most of summer too-happy to talk, give a talk!
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Jun 11
Yes, it's an AI hype bubble, but no, it popping isn't something we can cheer, either. From Mar Hicks and I, back in 2024:
Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate – Ash Center
From ash.harvard.edu

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