Did you miss us already? Well, The Anti-Dystopians are back!
This time, I spoke with Catriona Gray, a PhD at the University of Bath working at the intersection of sociology, politics, and law. We discussed AI and the political economy of data; whether frameworks like ‘data is the new oil’ are helpful to understanding these new technologies; what really *is* new about these technologies or the relationships that have been created today; how to think about the inequities between the Global North and the Global South, and how these relate to existing and historical relationships; and the implementation and conceptualization of AI regulation in governments and beyond.
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Further reading from the episode:
By Catriona:
Other Works Mentioned in the Episode:
Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination by Gurminder K. Bhambra
Racial platform capitalism: empire, migration and the making of Uber in London by Dalia Gebrial
Theft is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory by Robert Nichols
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Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract at least three papers
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Tweet of the Week
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