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This paper examines how emerging public experiments in red-teaming generative AI (genAI) systems engender new formations of ‘experimental publics,’ shaped by competing visions of expertise, democratic oversight, and AI safety. Interrogating the practice of genAI red-teaming, the authors analyze distinctions between instrumental and deliberative pub... See more
Jacob Metcalf • Experimental Publics: Democracy and the Role of Publics in GenAI Evaluation
Within the next decade, we will need to make important decisions: whether to program novel viruses to fight diseases, what genetic privacy will look like, who will “own” living organisms, how companies should earn revenue from engineered cells, and how to contain a synthetic organism in a lab.
Genesis Machine: Synthetic biology will allow us to program living organisms like computers
Labeling something “scientific” is not a mere definitional practice but also political and ideological.
Hiromi Mizuno • Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
Transforming swaths of land into laboratories where laws and regulations are subordinate to accumulation is generative, “reconfiguring relationships between governing and the governed, power and knowledge, and sovereignty and territoriality.”
Jesse Robertson • A Complicated System of Traps: On Quinn Slobodian’s “Crack-Up Capitalism” — Cleveland Review of Books
- Generate and commit to experiments. Discuss individual experiments for dealing with constituents