Welcome to our new ASK AN EXPERT feature, a partnership between Critical AI and Critical AI @ Rutgers’ NEH-funded DESIGN JUSTICE LABS network. In response to an
GUEST FORUM: RICKY D. CRANO’S “UC IRVINE’S SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES IS SHUTTING DOWN CRITICAL AI RESEARCH”
Critical AI’s Guest Forum welcomes writers on topics of potential interest to our readers inside and outside of the academy. Below, an op-ed from Ricky D. Crano (Film & Media Studies, UC Irvine) on disturbing “AI”-related institutional changes in higher ed.
SNEAK PREVIEW: REVIEW: Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler’s TEXTGENED
This review by Nathaniel Myers has now been published in Critical AI at this link https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/article/doi/10.1215/2834703X-12096027/406202/TextGenEd-Teaching-with-Text-Generation; an extract is pasted in below. If your institution lacks
Sneak Preview: REVIEW: Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal, Théo LePage-Richer and Lucy Suchman’s Neural Networks
This review by Teddy Roland has now been published in Critical AI at this link https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/article/doi/10.1215/2834703X-12096036/406204/Neural-Networks; an extract is pasted in below. If your institution lacks
SNEAK PREVIEW: Purnima Mankekar’s “Genealogies of Knowledge: Information, Data, and Algorithmic World-Making”
[Below, a sneak preview from the upcoming issue Critical AI 3.1, Purnima Mankekar‘s “Genealogies of Knowledge: Information, Data, and Algorithmic World-Making”]
GUEST FORUM: DAN ROTH’S LECTURE “ON THE MYTHS OF REASONING LANGUAGE MODELS,” FROM THE RU CS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
[On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, the Rutgers Computer Science department hosted a Distinguished Lecture on the future of language models. Dan Roth is the Eduardo