Rishita Chaudhary

I must hope that those who barely remember life before the internet, or never knew it at all, will find their way through the dazzle and disappointments of technology, the seductions and the traps. I have to trust that, as they await future wonders, they will also look back to see the world as it was before this moment of the internet, and find... See more

author and essayist Charles Eisenstein discussed how productivity can be counterproductive when we take it to an extreme: “When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while the immeasurable, the qualitative, and the things we don’t think to measure drain away. Bedazzled by quantitative abundance, we might... See more

And salve it we must, yet there is no damnation greater than spending our allotted days in the catatonia of comfort and certainty, our inner lives automated by habit and halogen lit by convenience. To try to save ourselves from the despair by which we contour hope, to spare ourselves the fertile doubt and the gasps of self-surprise by which we... See more

Unless there are massive changes in terms of who is controlling the technology, deciding where resources should be funneled, and what kinds of products should be built and for whom, I don’t think there is really any way to get out of the cycle that we’re currently in.

The publication explores ways to actively think about data and artificial intelligence in regions outside of North America and Europe, while offering unique perspectives to investigate and understand the diverse ethics, politics, and everyday experiences of living with these technologies. How can we describe living with AI systems and their data... See more