Resources

Intro to AI

Basic understanding of AI and related topics. A good place to start.
https://www.thats-ai.org

History
https://www.thats-ai.org/en-GB/units/a-brief-history-of-ai

What is AI
https://www.thats-ai.org/en-GB/units/what-is-ai

Society
https://www.thats-ai.org/en-GB/units/ai-and-society

AI podcasts

AI and feminism
https://www.gender.cam.ac.uk/technology-gender-and-intersectionality-research-project/the-good-robot-podcast

Ai and child psychology
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000517373857

AI culture
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000611417980
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000604814130

The Reith lectures with Stuart Russell
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001216k

Fun and easy listening
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hard-fork/id1528594034
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/deepmind-the-podcast/id1476316441
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mckinsey-on-ai/id1511618560

Articles

Current AI articles
https://www.technologyreview.com/topic/artificial-intelligence/

On Hallucination and capitalism 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

Jaron Lanier
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/23/tech-guru-jaron-lanier-the-danger-isnt-that-ai-destroys-us-its-that-it-drives-us-insane

Tech activism – Ethics
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/

Labor exploitation
https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/

Timnit Gebru – DAIR institute
https://www.dair-institute.org/research/

A much referenced paperknow as the “Stochastic Parrots”:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

A paper on spatial apartheid in SA
https://openreview.net/forum?id=WV0waZz9dTF

A response to the “6 month pause on AI development” letter: 
https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023/

Sentience – Consciousness
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/could-a-large-language-model-be-conscious/https://theconversation.com/ai-isnt-close-to-becoming-sentient-the-real-danger-lies-in-how-easily-were-prone-to-anthropomorphize-it-200525

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/31/ethicists-fire-back-at-ai-pause-letter-they-say-ignores-the-actual-harms/?utm_source=artifact

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/06/ai-regulation-sam-altman-bill-gates/674278/

Books

The Alignment Problem, Brian Christian

Human Compatible, Stuart Russell

I am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan

The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience, Matthew Cobb

Atlas of AI, Kate Crawford 

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence, James Lovelock

General tech/posthuman philosophy reads

  • Hello Avatar, by Beth Coleman
  • Glitch Feminism, by Legacy Russell
  • The Cyborg Manifesto, by Donna Haraway 
  • Meeting the Universe halfway, By Karen Barad
  • How we became posthuman, by Katherine Hayles
  • Cosmopolotics, by Isabelle Stengers 
  • Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway, By Arthur Kroker 

Talks

AI philosophers, talks