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Coverage of My Work in WRAL
A few months ago, I was approached by the School of Data Science, and the University Communications office, here at UNC Charlotte, to ask me to sit down for some coverage my Analytics Frontiers k...
Appendix A: An Imagined and Incomplete Conversation about “Consciousness” and “AI,” Across Time
Every so often, I think about the fact of one of the best things my advisor and committee members let me write and include in my actual doctoral dissertation, and I smile a bit, and since I keep ...
My New Article at WIRED
So, you may have heard about the whole zoom “AI” Terms of Service clause public relations debacle, going on this past week, in which Zoom decided that it wasn’t going to let users opt out...
My New Article at American Scientist
As of this week, I have a new article in the July-August 2023 Special Issue of American Scientist Magazine. It’s called “Bias Optimizers,” and it’s all about the problems and potential re...
The “P” Stands for Pre-trained
I know I’ve said this before, but since we’re going to be hearing increasingly more about Elon Musk and his “Anti-Woke” “A.I.” “Truth GPT” in the coming days and weeks, let’s go...
Further Thoughts on the “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights”
So with the job of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director having gone to Dr. Arati Prabhakar back in October, rather than Dr. Alondra Nelson, and the release of the “Bluep...
I’m Not Afraid of AI Overlords— I’m Afraid of Whoever’s Training Them To Think That Way
I’m Not Afraid of AI Overlords— I’m Afraid of Whoever’s Training Them To Think That Way by Damien P. Williams I want to let you in on a secret: According to Silicon Valley’s AI’s, I...
Video and Transcript: “Why AI Research Needs Disabled and Marginalized Perspectives”
Hello Everyone. Here is my prerecorded talk for the NC State R.L. Rabb Symposium on Embedding AI in Society. There are captions in the video already, but I’ve also gone ahead and C/P’d th...
Master and Servant: Disciplinarity and the Implications of AI and Cyborg Identity
Much of my research deals with the ways in which bodies are disciplined and how they go about resisting that discipline. In this piece, adapted from one of the answers to my PhD preliminary exams...
‘Star Trek: Picard’ and The Admonition: Misapprehensions Through Time
I recently watched all of Star Trek: Picard, and while I was definitely on board with the vast majority of it, and extremely pleased with certain elements of it, some things kind of bothered me. ...