Critical AI Starter Pack (Expanded)
An expanded edition of the Critical AI Starter Pack, for people engaging in thoughtful criticism of AI, and/or technology, technopolitics or the tech industry more generally. The original is here: https://go.bsky.app/UPULf1S
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@eryk.bsky.social
@struthious.bsky.social
Applied scientist working on LLM evaluation and publishing in AI ethics. Formerly: technical writing, philosophy. Urbanism nerd in my spare time. Opinions here my own. he/they 🏳️⚧️. https://boltzmann-brain.github.io/
@xolotl.org
#communications & #community @nudgital.com. Wandering IQ. Raised by wolves. Friend to cheese. he/him. All posts #CCBY. Mastodon: https://social.coop/@xolotl
@laurasplan.bsky.social
📍"Hypertelic", RYAN LEE Gallery, NYC 📍“Electric Op”, Musée d’art de Nantes, FR 📍“Cryptic Lineages”, Museum of the Moving Image, NYC
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@mattcole.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Technology, Work and Employment at the University of Sussex. Heterodox Marxist - Les dés sont pipés! mattcole.work
@gregmepstein.bsky.social
Humanist Chaplain @Harvard/@MIT. NYT bestseller Good Without God. New multi-award-winner TECH AGNOSTIC: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, & Why it Desperately Needs a Reformation @MITPress @PenguinRandom https://tinyurl.com/282sze6v
@jrosenbaum.com.au
Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️⚧️🇦🇺 links page at minxdragon.com
@mayalivio.bsky.social
⛆ Environmental media prof @ American University ࿓ Writer, media-maker, curator 𓅪 Resident: MAK Center & SOM (2024) Caltech & Huntington (2023) ꩜ B4: Curator @ BMoCA; Media Archaeology Lab 𓆞 Biodiversity, critical data & AI, land use, media arts 𓆺 LA / DC
@dupatton.bsky.social
Schwartz University Professor at UPenn| SAFElab and PCIIT Founding Director| Studying Gun violence, AI Ethics, Youth and Mental Health, Grief, Social Media and Joy.
@elegantcollisions.bsky.social
Artist+scholar in critical data studies, black studies, sound, and geography. Assistant Professor @UCLA_DMA. https://linktr.ee/romimorrison
@joel.queercomputer.com
Writer of Queer Computer | PhD candidate researching queer community online @RMIT https://joelhumphries.com.au
@cyborgapologist.bsky.social
Ass Prof of STS @ UVA Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.
@fightforthefuture.org
Digital rights are human rights. There's hardly anything as important as ensuring that our shared future has freedom of expression and creativity at its core. https://www.fightforthefuture.org
@shanedenson.bsky.social
Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
@lisagiven.bsky.social
Prof, Information Sciences & Dir, Centre for Human-AI Information Environments (CHAI) & Dir, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform @RMIT | cats | metal | qualitative | Ed. Annual Review of Info Science & Technology https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-6175
@justinkhoo.com
I teach philosophy at MIT; philosophy of language, metaphysics, meta-ethics, aesthetics, film. Web: justinkhoo.com Movie podcast: @cowspod.com Movie reviews: http://letterboxd.com/blobcat/ Photography: https://instagram.com/juskhoo
@ahundt.bsky.social
I like 🤖🧗♂️📖😷! CMU postdoc, Equitable AI & Robotics, #CIFellow, #DEI advocate, PhD from #JHU, CMU NREC. L/RT≠end, my opinions mine. he/him
@nataliialaba.com
asst.-prof. in digital & multimodal communication / humane AI @unigroningen.bsky.social | genAI at the intersections of critical data studies & discourse studies ✨| SECR of the #ICA Visual Comm Division | https://nataliialaba.com
@richardsonma.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Drones, AI, war, culture, affect, witnessing. UNSW. Media Futures Hub. ADMS Centre. He/him. Nonhuman Witnessing with @dukepress.bsky.social https://t.ly/cQW5N
@carlcarlisle.bsky.social
interested in critical tech and cloud/AI, labour, wider concepts of security, edutech, municipal socialisms, degrowth
@mathematiguy.bsky.social
Indigenous language technology. PhD candidate at McGill University in Montreal. Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu.
@justcode.bsky.social
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
@monique-tschofen.bsky.social
Decameron Collective; electronic literature; digital humanities; critical AI studies; documentarian of multiple overlapping and ongoing crises; mad lover of glaciers and whales.
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Journalist @404Media.co Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
@followlori.bsky.social
Strategic Advisor Green Screen Coalition • PhD Communications UFRJ (Brasil) • Former Senior Fellow AI @Mozilla • Climate Justice • Public Interest Technologist & Ecological Stewardship • Espírito Santo / Brasília https://olink.ai/eco-midia
@youraibigsis.bsky.social
Data Scientist, coffee addict, blerd, and drummer. Octavia Butler stan. Trekkie, survivalist, and pole dancer. ADHDer, elder emo, horror movies, & video games🖤 AI 101: https://lu.ma/4h3drm9v Parable of the Sower book club: https://dis
@uche.bsky.social
Nigerian Californian from The Bay. Ohio State Alum. Tech Policy @ UChicago Harris 1914
@meron.bsky.social
Dyslectic. HRD, journalist, research fellow at @dairinstitute.bsky.social & founder of @btchubafrica.bsky.social Tweets about #Refugees #HumanRights #Eritrea #Africa #WithTheOpressed Personal account
@lgopal.bsky.social
DC/New York attorney working on issues of technology, democracy, civil rights, business, and the Rule of Law
@arunkundnani.bsky.social
I write about race, Islamophobia, surveillance, political violence, and radicalism. More at: kundnani.org
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
@sayash.bsky.social
CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI. Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
@hellinanigatu.bsky.social
CS PhD candidate @UCBerkeley. Interested in multilingual and low-resourced language NLP + HCI. @SIGHPC CDS Fellow. Interned @MBZUAI. Website: https://hhnigatu.github.io
@devikanarayan.bsky.social
Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work. some other stuff. Sociologist. https://www.devikanarayan.com/
@cgirard-chanudet.bsky.social
Sociologue 🤖 Intelligence Artificielle & Algorithmes 🏗️ Infrastructures matérielles du numérique 🔧 Travail invisible des données 🏛️ Transformation de l'action publique 📟 Quantification et standardisation
@glenberman.bsky.social
PhD candidate and researcher @ Australian National University. Studying the practices of Artificial Intelligence research and development. Living and working in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri Country. #ResponsibleAI #STS
@krystalkauffman.bsky.social
Activist * Lead Organizer - Turkopticon * Research Fellow - Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute * Rising Stars in AI Ethics 2024 * Tech Crunch Women in AI 2024 * All opinions are my own
@melaniedusseau.bsky.social
Creative writing & lit prof, querying romance author, Lamplighter/AI refuser, book lover, & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com Associate Professor of English, U of Findlay (she/her/Ohioan), MFA, witchy, dog-loving, traveling Hibernophile 💗
@sandrak24.bsky.social
Lifelong learner interested in tech, history, and languages among other things.
@jeah.bsky.social
Research on digitalisation with a focus on innovation, regulation and democracy, at WZB, HIIG, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin. Teaching at Freie Universität
@yasminibison.bsky.social
Senior Policy Advisor at JRF (@jrf-uk.bsky.social) focusing on communities, place + technology she/her Views my own.
@asvatha.bsky.social
Dissertating on algorithmic surveillance and its narratives in India @AmericanU. Interested in media, emerging technology, and governance.
@1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social
Pascua Yaqui soil scientist, runner, science communicator, Indigenous data warrior & assistant professor Learn more about me: https://nativesoilnerd.com Check out Run to Be Visible, my 50 mile honor run: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrLTUUPugIc
@shaily99.bsky.social
PhDing at LTI, CMU Prev: Ai2, Google Research, MSR Evaluating language technologies, regularly ranting, and probably procrastinating. https://sites.google.com/view/shailybhatt/
@khari.bsky.social
proud dad, snack enthusiast, tech reporter at CalMatters/The Markup, formerly at WIRED and VentureBeat Fellow, Karsh Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia SPJ board member http://www.kharijohnson.com 📍Oakland, CA
@sinalana.bsky.social
京都で人工生命の研究してます。Kyoto. ALife researcher https://lanasina.github.io/ Artificial Life, Astrobiology, Visual Illusions; views my own. Research @ Sony CSL, National Institute for Basic Biology. talking dog insta @iikocookie
@drjasberry.bsky.social
Neuro-AI Research Scientist. Brains-Minds-Machines, Self-Awareness, Consciousness for Robotics and Health. 🧠🤖🦾 UMich 〽️ x USC ✌️ x NSU 🔰
@ololadefaniyi.bsky.social
PhDing at Emory Grad Fellow #AIAINetwork Gender and Feminisms sub-editor at republic.com.ng 📖 📝 At the intersection of African feminisms, digital cultures & critical technology studies Web: ololadefaniyi.com
@digital.therourke.net
Articles, essays, papers, artworks and news stories on digital media, digital culture, and media arts - also mirrored at: criticaldigitalmedia.tumblr.com by @therourke.net (also see @additivism.org)
@chinasa.bsky.social
AI Researcher, Policy Strategist, & Technorealist. Cornell Computer Science PhD. Brookings Fellow. TIME100 AI. Forbes Under 30 AI. Critically examining global equity in AI. 👩🏾💻: www.chinasatokolo.com 📩: bit.ly/engageCTO 📸: instagram.com/chinasatokolo
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@zaritaylor.bsky.social
critical cultural + media studies scholar tired of switching platforms. thoughts are my own.
@ajescoffery.bsky.social
professor @ Northwestern visiting scholar @ Harvard Berkman Klein jury @ Peabody Awards Media and Data Equity Lab: http://madelab.org researching & developing social media/tech, film, TV & intersectionality Reparative Media on MIT Press Fall 2025
@techtonicjustice.bsky.social
For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social Launch report: www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/inescapable-ai
@ravenben.bsky.social
Glaze, Nightshade, & projects to protect human creatives at University of Chicago. Professor @UChicagoCS, MIT TR-35 innovator, ACM Fellow, TIME 100/AI, TED/AI. Most of the time I post as @TheGlazeProject.bsky.social
@thaophan.bsky.social
Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country
@informor.bsky.social
Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
@laura4lano.bsky.social
Writer. Design Researcher. Professor @NU_CAMD Type 1D. Design, Tech and Radical Futures. Noodle Fanatic, Laser Cut Fashionista and Latin Alternative Rocker.
@cheeflo.bsky.social
Technocultural Ethicist | Associate Professor of Digital Communication @LoyolaChicago | Director of the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy @digethics and the Social and Interactive Media Lab @SIMLabChicago https://simlabchicago.com/?page_id=274
@kgt.bsky.social
[-o-] Digital rights by day, writing creative code + science fiction most other times. (Formerly @chipswoon on the bad site) https://kgt.dev
@cendemtech.bsky.social
The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @CDTEU.bsky.social for our EU-based team. https://cdt.org
@ninadahora.bsky.social
I have one foot in university and two feet on the floor, always. 2x Unicamper
@geoplace.bsky.social
Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social Publications: www.markgraham.space Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
@davidthewid.bsky.social
Postdoc@Cornell Info Sci. AI ethics, political economy of tech, Human-AI interaction, feminist STS trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me art: instagram.com/davidthewid exCMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs. davidwidder.me
@hagenblix.bsky.social
Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: http://commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai
@alasdairking.bsky.social
Reader in Film @qmul.ac.uk Tracking finance capital and cybernetics across contemporary film and post-cinematic art. New Book: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)
@andrewhoskins.bsky.social
PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR University of Edinburgh AI & MEMORY https://tinyurl.com/2znk9jy7 https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War €2.2M, 5 year project https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
@seyfert.bsky.social
Professor of sociology with a focus on sociological theory, @uni-kiel.de, Germany Social Theory, Algorithmic Sociality, Affect Theory https://www.seyfert.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9667-1970 https://mastodon.social/@RobertSeyfert
@vivaharehills.bsky.social
Writer of CYBERBOSS (Verso). Co-built Novara Media. Co-host Heart Reacts. Co-StreamArtNetwork. Co-digital gavagai. LTQ contributor 🍸🏳️🌈 http://c-gent.net/ https://shop.novaramedia.com/products/cyberboss
@mbfazi.bsky.social
Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018). University page https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
@zenaassaad.bsky.social
Host of the Responsible Bytes Podcast 🎙 Senior lecturer @ Australian National University researching safe & trusted autonomy, AI & human-machine teaming. Top 10 Women in AI APAC | 100 brilliant women in AI ethics | 🇦🇺🇱🇧 https://www.zenaassaad.com
@robertjbateman.bsky.social
• I post about privacy, data protection, security, AI • Regular updates on big tech shenanigans • Views absolutely represent those of my employer (me) • Consultancy and training services •
@shaynelongpre.bsky.social
PhD @ MIT. Prev: Google Deepmind, Apple, Stanford. 🇨🇦 Interests: AI/ML/NLP, Data-centric AI, transparency & societal impact
@netopia.bsky.social
Web publication & idea forum based in Brussels, discussing the future of the internet from a broad perspective on society's digital evolution ➡ http://netopia.eu | https://twitter.com/NetopiaEU - *** While Twitter burns - please follow us here***
@schock.cc
Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
@bvlsingler.bsky.social
Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
@bethmsemel.bsky.social
AI killjoy, prednisone hater, writing a book about voice analysis AI and the limits of technosolutionist listening in American mental healthcare
@adelewalton.bsky.social
Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World 📘 Online Safety Campaigner and Journalist Co-founder of Logging Off Club www.adelesnotes.co.uk
@alzbetahajkova.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of philosophy. Technological politics, technology and gender, pedagogy of philosophy of technology. From Slovakia, in Atlanta. she/her. Views expressed are my own.
@babintsevak.bsky.social
Historian of the mind, computing, artificial intelligence, and labor in the Cold War Soviet Union and the US. Asst Prof at Purdue. PhD from UPenn.
@nathanjurgenson.com
author, The Social Photo (Verso) former Snap; former Real Life magazine; former/future Theorizing the Web conference los angeles
@coricrider.com
Little tech, public goods. Senior Fellow, Open Markets and FutureTech. Hon. Prof. UCL Laws. Co-founder, Foxglove. Ex-Director, Reprieve. https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/staff/cori-crider https://futureinstitute.tech/about-us https://www.coricrider.com
@iris-meredith.bsky.social
Software engineer, trans advocate and general nuisance. Blogs at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/posts. Support my writing: https://www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandherblog https://en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith/
@milamiceli.bsky.social
Sociologist & Computer Scientist PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social 🌐 milamiceli.com
@jacbellon.bsky.social
#PhilosophyOfTechnology #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilosophyOfPsychology PhD on Gilbert Simondon @TUDarmstadt Research @uni_tue Teaching @HumboldtUniUlm, FH Südwestfalen & PH Ludwigsburg
@lnakamura.bsky.social
Researcher and prof. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. New book on women of color and the internet in the pipe. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
@emmiehine.com
Tech ethics/governance/policy @Yale Digital Ethics Center. Interests: AI, XR, most other tech, climbing, baking. ex-Oxford, ex-SWE My tech ethics newsletter: https://www.ethicalreckoner.substack.com
@rosamundevb.bsky.social
assistant prof criminology VUB teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI, research: digital & more-than-human criminology, critical surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
@gleemie.bsky.social
Prof UCSD Comm, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, TWC SD, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker.
@bwp.bsky.social
DSc in Cybersecurity. Proud Apache. AI security researcher. Lover of books, cats, dogs, and movies. ARVA board member. AI Village officer. DEFCON goon.
@atg-dbp.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School. Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
@couldrynick.bsky.social
I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook