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LSE students OCCUPY Marshall Building in solidarity with Palestine and set up an encampment

Such a pleasure to chat to Dr Kerry McInerney (Mackereth) about digital beauty culture for The Good Robot Podcast podcast! Listen below:

Check out this new publication by our research fellow Dr Aisha Sobey on how body weight is understood in Human-Computer Interaction research:

New Paper Alert! Our Researcher Aisha Sobey audits current HCI work to ask how body weight is understood in HCI. She shows how the common default design practice is to centre weight loss and argues this is harmful! Full paper available below:
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I really loved getting to chat to Ellen Atlanta Ellen Atlanta about the paradoxes that shape modern beauty culture and the impossible pressures it puts on women - listen to the episode below and get a copy of Pixel Flesh!

I am humbled to give the Iwan Morgan Lecture this year. I feel the weight of giving a talk on the intellectual labour of US Arab diasporic thinkers, pushing for Palestinian liberation, amidst the ongoing genocide. I’ll do my best to do the subject justice. history.ac.uk/events/2024-iw…

Very much looking forward to speaking about Feminist AI! 😊 Future Intelligence The Good Robot Podcast

Hear an impressive line-up of #AI leaders from the media, academia & business debate 'How will AI impact the year of elections?'

Speakers inc. Diane Coyle Kenneth Cukier Prof Gina Neff Ella McPherson Dr Kerry McInerney (Mackereth) Tom Mason Henry Ajder & Walter M. Pasquarelli

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🚨🚨Thrilled to share the FULL programme for Tech Transformed, in just 2 weeks time 🚨🚨

- All-day Twinery with Keir Milburn
- Organising your workplace with United Tech & Allied Workers (UTAW-CWU) members,
- Big Progressive Tech Showcase
- Plus much much more!

Check it out 👇 👇
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Hugely looking forward to doing a live recording of The Good Robot Podcast with Helen for Tech Transformed! Join us on Sat 25☀️

Read more about the new paper on the ethics of “deadbots” by our research fellows Dr Tomasz Hollanek & Dr Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska - reporting by The Guardian

SPOILER: It's a trap, and is a clear violation of a slew of international human rights and refugee law. Read more below 👇🏾👇🏾

Good to finally share - our work on the ethics of ‘deadbots’, simulating the deceased with AI, and on new design standards for the digital afterlife industry - effect of collaboration with Kasia Nowaczyk-Basińska. Out with Philosophy & Technology 🙌 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

How will AI impact the 'Year of Elections'?

Gain intel & insights from Diane Coyle Walter M. Pasquarelli Henry Ajder Prof Gina Neff Kenneth Cukier Dr Kerry McInerney (Mackereth) Ella McPherson & Tom Mason on deepfakes, AI regulation & electoral innovation.

21 May–6pm–Cambridge

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It is possible Cambridge University theguardian.com/world/article/…

Remarkable to see the list of encampments growing globally as students rise up against genocide, apartheid, settler colonialism and Israeli occupation.

Day 3 of the Gaza student protest in Cambridge, which is getting bigger and bigger. Hundreds of faculty have signed the solidarity pledge - if you haven't already done so and you're a faculty member, grad student or alum, here's the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Day 2 of the Gaza student protest here in Cambridge; if you're a Cambridge staff member, please consider signing the statement of support for our students via this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Final roundtable happening now!