Welcome to the blog site for Critical AI, a new interdisciplinary journal based at Rutgers University’s Center for Cultural Analysis, affiliated with the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science and the Rutgers Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (RAD) Collaboratory, and published with Duke University Press. Critical AI began as an interdisciplinary initiative at Rutgers University, organized and led by a steering committee. The blog hosted on this site includes research, reviews, and commentary by interdisciplinary scholars in a wide range of AI-adjacent fields, as well as posts by faculty and students affiliated with the Critical AI @ Rutgers initiative. We also archive posts on, and videos from, our online events including our NEH-sponsored workshops with Australian National University.
To learn more about Critical AI @ Rutgers and our current activities, see this RU website.
Click here for video of our 10/3 workshop talks on “Troubleshooting” AI!
Note that the submission requirements for Critical AI have been updated and can be found here.
The latest issue of Critical AI is out and accessible online! Read Critical AI 3.1 online during the limited free access period, and encourage your library to subscribe.
We are working to update our living document on TEACHING CRITICAL AI LITERACIES for the Fall 25 semester.
Click here to view and download CRITICAL AI LITERACIES: A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS.
Watch the recordings from May 8th of the DESIGN JUSTICE AI Global Humanities Post-Institute, featuring discussion panels about our continuing work since last July’s Mellon-CHCI Global Humanities Institute.
On May 9th, we held an in-person Design Justice DiscoTECH! Imagine a high-tech science fair but with music, art, community-building, and plenty of time for your questions and comments. Stay tuned for future DiscoTECHs.
Click here for recordings of RESEARCH IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI, a one-day hybrid symposium on design justice and critical AI literacies perspectives on the future of research, digital tools, libraries, and librarianship during a time of technological change.
To learn more about the journal, including submission guidelines and subscription information, please check out this Duke University Press webpage.
You can also follow us on Mastodon at @CriticalAI@mastodon.social.
To learn more about the journal, or to share ideas, please email us at criticalai@sas.rutgers.edu.
To reach our editor directly, email lauren.goodlad@rutgers.edu.
Though rooted in critical methods from the humanities, social sciences, and arts, Critical AI works with technologists, scientists, economists, policy makers, health professionals, teachers, community organizers, legislators, lawyers, and entrepreneurs who share the understanding of interdisciplinary research as a powerful tool for building and implementing accountable technology in the public interest. Open to ideas born of new interdisciplinary alliances; design justice principles; antiracist, decolonial, and democratic political practices; community-centered collaborations; experimental pedagogies; and public outreach, Critical AI functions as a space for the production of knowledge, research endeavors, teaching ideas, and public humanities that bears on the ongoing history of machine technologies and their place in the world. Critical AI is legible to scholars across disciplines as well as to interested readers outside the academy. At the broadest level, its mission is to widen circles of scholarship across disciplines and national borders, encourage informed citizens, and activate a democratic culture through which the research, implementation, and evaluation of digital technologies is undertaken in dialogue with scholars, students, citizens, communities, policy makers, and the public at large.