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The publisher of a book I'm co-editing (Routledge Books) just asked me not to mention a monograph in my bio because it's from another publisher 🤔

Communicating with #AI in natural language is becoming an everyday experience for large masses of people in the world. How are we shaping new communicative relationships with AI? Today at Universität Tübingen uni-tuebingen.de/en/fakultaeten… @TanjaThomas9 @doctorsorce

Always the hardest part. You think you’re done, the wine reception at hand, yet there is this last important bit. The conclusions

Published! The first book in the Critical Perspectives on Museums & Digital Technology series! This short book, ed. by Simone Natale, Petrina Foti & Ross Parry, examines the critical role that cultural organizations play in shaping digital heritage. t.ly/SXF4G

I’m not sure if the fast lines for groups with children at airports are meant to help families or to protect other people from us

Molto, molto, molto felice che il premio Limina 2024 per la migliore traduzione italiana di un testo sul cinema e sui media sia andato a “Media. Una cassetta degli attrezzi” di Michael Z. Newman, di cui ho curato con Simone Natale l’edizione italiana per Einaudi editore. :)

Happy to share this new OA paper with the greats Simone Natale and Christian Katzenbach @[email protected] on weak & strong AI narratives for AI & Society. We propose a framework to address & normalise narratives around AI, placing #weakAI firmly at the center of public debates. rdcu.be/dWEws

So happy to see this out! A freshly-baked contribution to our special issue (Ludovico Rella) on weak and strong AI narratives by Paolo Bory, Simone Natale and Christian Katzenbach @[email protected]

Has generative AI cracked the Turing Test? But what if this is not the right question to ask at this moment? What if the real message of the Turing Test is not about machines, but about ourselves as humans? Listen to this podcast hosted by Jill Fellows: open.spotify.com/episode/5OhnYF…

Last week, I published an article featuring a section on discourses around #AI in Communication & Society Journal (buff.ly/483IjHy). For more insights, check out this piece by Paolo Bory, Simone Natale, and Christian Katzenbach @[email protected]: "Strong and Weak AI Narratives" buff.ly/3U8OK6w.

You can still meet someone in academia who has never heard of ChatGPT

New publication alert! 🎉 In Int. J. of Social Robotics, Simone Natale and I explore how "banal" deception in #AI design can benefit users ethically. Read about our framework for #HumanCenteredAI! 📄 link.springer.com/article/10.100… #AIethics #HCI

📢CFP reminder ECREA Communication and Democracy conference "Automating Democracy:#AI Use Between #SocialJustice &Social Control" ⏳submission close Jan 15 ✨Excited to announce our keynotes Dr. Madalina Busuioc @mbusuioc.bsky.social & Simone Natale ! Find out more & submit your research here👇 tinyurl.com/5k3exu3d

📢Call for abstracts 'Automating Democracy:#AI Use Between #SocialJustice &Social Control" has been extended to Jan 31st! ✨You have 2 additional weeks to share you research on #AI, #governance and #citizenparticipation Join us in Rotterdam on May 22/23! automatingdemocracy.wordpress.com

Opening of my book "Deceitful Media: AI and Social Life after the Turing Test" (Oxford University Press 2021). Four years later, it looks less imaginative as science fiction, but fortunately there's still the crime story angle...

n this new #OnlineFirst article, Simone Natale et al. apply Doreen Massey’s concept of power geometries to #AI—highlighting how agency, inequality & global-local relations shape AI’s development and governance. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Join us Birkbeck, University of London on 6 May for talk by historian and theorist of technology Simone Natale "Projecting Life Onto Machines." Discussing the illusion of intelligence from Victorian seances to contemporary AI. #artsweek bbk.ac.uk/events/event/4…

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Payal Arora & Simone Natale argue that global #AI debates must move beyond abstract ethics. By situating AI in everyday cultural contexts, they spotlight how global-local dynamics shape our interactions with tech. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…