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In February I was at Loughborough University’s London campus to speak about AI and HCI, at an event called Building Trust in AI: Designing for Consent <\/em>– a double-bill talk, as it were, with Prof. Shaun Lawson<\/a> of the NorSC Lab<\/a> at Northumbria University. I spoke mostly about the evidence I’d given to the UK Parliament to an audience of lawyers, ML engineers, and HCI scholars.<\/p>\n

In April I was in Germany once again, at the University of G\u00f6ttingen<\/span>, for a conference on The American Weird: Ecologies & Geographies<\/em><\/a>. My paper was on ‘400 Years of Millennialism: a Doxa of the American Weird’, and a book is forthcoming.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At some point during the summer, but I’m not entirely sure when, the paper I wrote with my long-standing Lincoln Institute of Social Computing collaborators, now at Cork, York, and Northumbria, was published in Funology<\/em> 2<\/a>: \u201cPlayful Research Fiction: A Fictional Conference\u201d.<\/p>\n

And in November I spoke at the entirely splendid KFFK.de<\/a> – the Cologne Short Film Festival – about why our cultural visions of an artificially intelligent future are so often dystopian warnings.<\/p>\n

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