📌 Our #ecprgc26 panel 'Artificial Intelligence Politics and Policy in Uncertain Times' with stellar line-up is scheduled for 10 Sept Thursday 16:15-18:00
We are organizing AI politics panel for the 7th year in a row to continue this important conversation ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @ecpr.bsky.social
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Europe keeps calling for its own Darpa and some countries are already building one but the continent may be misreading what Darpa actually does and what it cannot.
Read more: sciencebusiness.net/news/interna...
More questions need to be asked about the impact of tech oligarchs on society, elections and government, my comment on BBC Points of View (10:44) discussing recent documentary on tech billionaire www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
In the book Computer Power and Human Reason, Josepeh Weizenbaum wrote about “civil courage”:
“Every individual must act as if the whole future of the world, of humanity itself, depends on him. Anything less is a shirking of responsibility and is itself a dehumanizing force..."
Cloud capitalism and the AI transition
A public lecture by Professor Kathleen Thelen (MIT) on the implications of a new cloud business model that is powering the advance of AI
22 June 2026, 5.30 - 7pm
Lady Mitchell Hall, CB3 9DA
https://bit.ly/4uWWkAW
Sycamore Gap, Hadrian's Wall
Barely a week goes by in Europe without a call to set up an equivalent of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the body credited with some of the 20th century’s most transformativ...
ICYMI:
- Chips Act 2.0 (2 Chips 2 Act)
- Cloud and AI Development Act
- Communication on European Tech Sovereignty + EU Open Source Strategy
- Strategic roadmap for digitalization and AI in the energy sector
commission.europa.eu/news-and-med...
Inga Ulnicane
Inga Ulnicane
Science|Business
Inga Ulnicane
Alondra Nelson
CRASSH
I've written an essay in today's FT Weekend about why - and how - people are shaking off the feeling of being "frozen" in front of a "tusnami", and beginning to fight for the future they want. as.ft.com/r/cfa87609-8... (some free clicks here!)
Inga Ulnicane
🎉🍾❗We congratulate @ulrike-felt.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Bernal Prize by @4sonline.bsky.social for her distinguished contributions to the field of STS! @univie.ac.at
👩🔬👨🔬🧪 #STS #SciCom
Learn about Commission’s plans to make Europe an AI leader and more digitally self-reliant, by strengthening its capacity for semiconductors, AI, cloud and open source
The real question is not what the technology can do but what it ought to do. Sarah O’Connor on the people fighting for the future of work
as.ft.com
Marco Almada
Sarah O'Connor
Ulrike Felt was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Award by the Society for Social Studies of Science for her distinguished contributions to the field of STS!
More questions need to be asked about the impact of tech oligarchs on society, elections and government, my comment on BBC Points of View (10:44) discussing recent documentary on tech billionaire www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
