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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Do large language models have a psychology?

  • Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory in Education, Jan 24th in Bath/online

  • Against Dan McQuillan’s AI realism and for Holly Lewis’s AI realism

  • Against an instrumentalist understanding of AI: critical realism and conceptualising artificial intelligence

  • The basic sociological problem of artificial intelligence

  • “neologistic excess is an abuse of language that turns thought into a pile of words, into delirium”

  • Webinar: A dialogue between Critical Realism and Postdigital Research

  • Robophobia as a form of prejudice which stops academics working effectively within generative AI

  • What we need today is not a theory of a new age

  • On the machinic qualities of human interaction and the human qualities of the machine

  • Human cognition meets machine cognition, human cognition gets better

  • Hannah Arendt on machinic rhythms and their power to consume our autonomy

  • From social media to generative media: a first lecture on my next project after Generative AI for Academics

  • Big Data, Critical Realism, Human Agency and the Future of the Social Sciences

  • Generative AI and the destabilization of cultural objects

  • The sociology of the digital daemon

  • Techno-optimism as boomer dogma

  • CfP: The Realist Approach to AI

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