Maya Indira Ganesh
@mayameme.bsky.social
Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk
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Maya Indira Ganesh
@mayameme.bsky.social
· Mar 28
AUTO-CORRECT – ArtEZPress
artezpress.artez.nl
She’s here ! Pub day was March 25th. Thank you for so many pre-orders! I’m looking forward to talks and workshops in the coming year. Reach out if you want to invite me to talk about Ai, machine ethics, and the sociotechnical.
artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...
artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...
Cut your Indian friends and colleagues some slack today. 😭
June 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Cut your Indian friends and colleagues some slack today. 😭
At #CVPR2025 today at a workshop by folks from Mila Quebec titled VLMs 4All sites.google.com/view/vlms4all
I’ll be posting here from the workshop today
Already I’m so taken by the very open and welcoming space the organisers have created
I’ll be posting here from the workshop today
Already I’m so taken by the very open and welcoming space the organisers have created
VLMs-4-All 2025
News 📢
sites.google.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
At #CVPR2025 today at a workshop by folks from Mila Quebec titled VLMs 4All sites.google.com/view/vlms4all
I’ll be posting here from the workshop today
Already I’m so taken by the very open and welcoming space the organisers have created
I’ll be posting here from the workshop today
Already I’m so taken by the very open and welcoming space the organisers have created
Next week in Bremen
June 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Next week in Bremen
Reposted by Maya Indira Ganesh
We hosted a convo with @mayameme.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social to celebrate her new book on ethics, driverless cars, and AI futures. She spoke about agency, design and how we think about new tech, and moral decision-making.
Overview of the convo ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/auto-correct...
Overview of the convo ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/auto-correct...
May 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We hosted a convo with @mayameme.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social to celebrate her new book on ethics, driverless cars, and AI futures. She spoke about agency, design and how we think about new tech, and moral decision-making.
Overview of the convo ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/auto-correct...
Overview of the convo ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/auto-correct...
No matter if you can’t come to my book launch event on Thursday in Cambridge; @dmuravyov.bsky.social interviewed me for the Network Cultures blog and we had a really great chat. Great working with you again Dmitry 🙏🏾✨☺️
I had a great time talking with @mayameme.bsky.social about her new book! So much fun thinking about failures, ethics & design, and technological critique—hope that others also find it interesting
networkcultures.org/blog/2025/05...
networkcultures.org/blog/2025/05...
“Irony is an opportunity for ambivalence”: Interview with Maya Indira Ganesh about her Book Auto-Correct
In 2025, ARTez Press published Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car by Maya Indira Ganesh. I talked with Maya about the book — why and how technologies fail
networkcultures.org
May 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
No matter if you can’t come to my book launch event on Thursday in Cambridge; @dmuravyov.bsky.social interviewed me for the Network Cultures blog and we had a really great chat. Great working with you again Dmitry 🙏🏾✨☺️
This is going to be an amazing book!
"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...
May 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This is going to be an amazing book!
@bitnik.bsky.social will support projects against Tech Facism. “The proposed artistic projects can be tactical, performative or metaphoric, among others. We are looking for daily acts of resistance, interventions, how-tos”
Full call: error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...
Full call: error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...
May 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
@bitnik.bsky.social will support projects against Tech Facism. “The proposed artistic projects can be tactical, performative or metaphoric, among others. We are looking for daily acts of resistance, interventions, how-tos”
Full call: error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...
Full call: error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...
Reposted by Maya Indira Ganesh
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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Gorgeous gorgeous girls write gorgeous gorgeous books about complex technological systems / join us in Cambridge on May 22nd for this! So honored to be @mayameme.bsky.social 's discussant ✨🐋
Pls come to my book launch on May 22, 5pm, at Newnham College Cambridge cohosted w @mctd.bsky.social and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social and with stellar discussants @gsvoss.bsky.social and Jennifer Schooling Register here: lu.ma/9vm405sk
May 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Pls come to my book launch on May 22, 5pm, at Newnham College Cambridge cohosted w @mctd.bsky.social and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social and with stellar discussants @gsvoss.bsky.social and Jennifer Schooling Register here: lu.ma/9vm405sk
Book Launch: Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car · Luma
A conversation with Maya Indira Ganesh on how driverless cars are reshaping governance, responsibility, and values
What can a driverless car tell us about…
lu.ma
May 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Pls come to my book launch on May 22, 5pm, at Newnham College Cambridge cohosted w @mctd.bsky.social and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social and with stellar discussants @gsvoss.bsky.social and Jennifer Schooling Register here: lu.ma/9vm405sk
Reposted by Maya Indira Ganesh
What can driverless cars tell us about power, ethics, and the dreams we attach to tech?
Join us and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 22 May for a convo with @mayameme.bsky.social on her new book exploring this question.
Register (free!) ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/book-...
Join us and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 22 May for a convo with @mayameme.bsky.social on her new book exploring this question.
Register (free!) ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/book-...
Book Launch: Auto-Correct: The Fantasies and Failures of AI, Ethics, and the Driverless Car
Join us at Cambridge to celebrate the launch of Maya Indira Ganesh's new book on how driverless cars are reshaping governance, responsibility, and values.
www.mctd.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
What can driverless cars tell us about power, ethics, and the dreams we attach to tech?
Join us and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 22 May for a convo with @mayameme.bsky.social on her new book exploring this question.
Register (free!) ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/book-...
Join us and @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social on 22 May for a convo with @mayameme.bsky.social on her new book exploring this question.
Register (free!) ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/book-...
Sometimes you see someone on the bus wearing something silly and you know they were lured and scammed by an Instagram ad.
May 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Sometimes you see someone on the bus wearing something silly and you know they were lured and scammed by an Instagram ad.
Reposted by Maya Indira Ganesh
"We should not take AI companies’ word for it when they tell us where we are headed. It is up to society and its institutions to steer innovation away from risks and toward benefits."
A great piece with no mention of stakeholders and a shoutout to @mayameme.bsky.social new book Auto-Correct.
A great piece with no mention of stakeholders and a shoutout to @mayameme.bsky.social new book Auto-Correct.
Governance can't be automated. My latest comment piece in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"We should not take AI companies’ word for it when they tell us where we are headed. It is up to society and its institutions to steer innovation away from risks and toward benefits."
A great piece with no mention of stakeholders and a shoutout to @mayameme.bsky.social new book Auto-Correct.
A great piece with no mention of stakeholders and a shoutout to @mayameme.bsky.social new book Auto-Correct.
Reposted by Maya Indira Ganesh
Within AI innovation, there's a strong technical idea of AI 'safety' that would love to be able to contain risk and ethical concerns. (@mayameme.bsky.social's excellent new book discusses the fantasy of ethics-by-design)
April 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Within AI innovation, there's a strong technical idea of AI 'safety' that would love to be able to contain risk and ethical concerns. (@mayameme.bsky.social's excellent new book discusses the fantasy of ethics-by-design)
Reposted by Maya Indira Ganesh
But risk, and the governance of risks, is always sociotechnical, as @alondra.bsky.social and @sethlazar.org argue here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
AI safety on whose terms?
Rapid, widespread adoption of the latest large language models has sparked both excitement and concern about advanced artificial intelligence (AI). In response, many are looking to the field of AI saf...
www.science.org
April 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
But risk, and the governance of risks, is always sociotechnical, as @alondra.bsky.social and @sethlazar.org argue here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Maya Indira Ganesh
Nature have picked up our survey. We think it's the largest survey of AI researchers ever conducted. Here's a quick thread on some of the headlines @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Will AI improve your life? Here’s what 4,000 researchers think
Scientists working on artificial intelligence are more confident than the public that the technology will benefit people.
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Nature have picked up our survey. We think it's the largest survey of AI researchers ever conducted. Here's a quick thread on some of the headlines @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
DEI in corporate India survives www.thehindu.com/society/dei-...
“Indian businesses are in such critical need of talent that they must necessarily act to expand their talent pools — something borne out by an uncoordinated but widespread focus on DEI”
“Indian businesses are in such critical need of talent that they must necessarily act to expand their talent pools — something borne out by an uncoordinated but widespread focus on DEI”
India Inc.’s DEI push: Amid Trump’s DEI rollback in the U.S., corporates in India commit to stay true to the diversity and inclusion agenda
DEI specialists in India navigate challenges as U.S. companies scale back programs, while Indian firms lead inclusion efforts.
www.thehindu.com
April 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
DEI in corporate India survives www.thehindu.com/society/dei-...
“Indian businesses are in such critical need of talent that they must necessarily act to expand their talent pools — something borne out by an uncoordinated but widespread focus on DEI”
“Indian businesses are in such critical need of talent that they must necessarily act to expand their talent pools — something borne out by an uncoordinated but widespread focus on DEI”
The UK AISI is doing something very interesting with their societal resilience grants program by (re)framing AI safety as a societal issue and by supporting research from a number of sectors that have a deep understanding of safety. I’m thrilled to be a new grantee www.aisi.gov.uk/work/strengt...
Strengthening AI Resilience | AISI Work
20 Systemic Safety Grant Awardees Announced
www.aisi.gov.uk
April 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The UK AISI is doing something very interesting with their societal resilience grants program by (re)framing AI safety as a societal issue and by supporting research from a number of sectors that have a deep understanding of safety. I’m thrilled to be a new grantee www.aisi.gov.uk/work/strengt...
I just got copies of my first book 🥹
March 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I just got copies of my first book 🥹
I’m sad to hear about the passing of Jonathan Sterne. I was on a panel with him once during the pandemic and felt I had achieved something important by virtue of digital proximity 😅 To those who didn’t know his work, this post from Duke will lead you to discover this stellar media theorist.
Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad.
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne
We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …
dukeupress.wordpress.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I’m sad to hear about the passing of Jonathan Sterne. I was on a panel with him once during the pandemic and felt I had achieved something important by virtue of digital proximity 😅 To those who didn’t know his work, this post from Duke will lead you to discover this stellar media theorist.
They assure me it’s real and happening somewhere in a press in the Netherlands. Thank you to so many of you who pre-ordered. It’s coming! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...
March 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
They assure me it’s real and happening somewhere in a press in the Netherlands. Thank you to so many of you who pre-ordered. It’s coming! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...
Delighted and honored to be with @thaophan.bsky.social in meatspace and @zentralwerkstatt.org virtually
next week at Goldsmiths to share something quite different for the first time
next week at Goldsmiths to share something quite different for the first time
Hello UK friends! I'm giving a few talks in the flesh over the coming weeks. If you're in London, come to this talk at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w @mayameme.bsky.social as part of the Goldsmiths Visual Cultures seminar series
Thursday 27 March, 5 - 7pm
www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
Thursday 27 March, 5 - 7pm
www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
Who's Represented/What's Unrepresentable: AI and Race
Thao Phan and Fabian Offert (paper 1) and Maya Indira Ganesh (paper 2).
www.gold.ac.uk
March 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Delighted and honored to be with @thaophan.bsky.social in meatspace and @zentralwerkstatt.org virtually
next week at Goldsmiths to share something quite different for the first time
next week at Goldsmiths to share something quite different for the first time
Perfecting the right kind of grovelling tone for a FAcCT rebuttal is quite a task when you’re simultaneously trying to write a grant proposal about how awesome and urgent your future work will be
March 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Perfecting the right kind of grovelling tone for a FAcCT rebuttal is quite a task when you’re simultaneously trying to write a grant proposal about how awesome and urgent your future work will be
Yay our paper got accepted so maybe I’ll be @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle this year -bc I already have US visa. Thanks for nothing, Europe: Sad to have missed 4S /Easst last year. *There are still no Schengen appointments available*
March 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Yay our paper got accepted so maybe I’ll be @4sweb.bsky.social in Seattle this year -bc I already have US visa. Thanks for nothing, Europe: Sad to have missed 4S /Easst last year. *There are still no Schengen appointments available*
VFS sucks
Trying to apply for a Schengen for May-June and there are no appointments ..
Trying to apply for a Schengen for May-June and there are no appointments ..
March 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
VFS sucks
Trying to apply for a Schengen for May-June and there are no appointments ..
Trying to apply for a Schengen for May-June and there are no appointments ..