Dr. Anuradha Sajjanhar
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Dr. Anuradha Sajjanhar
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Assistant Prof/Lecturer in Politics and Policy at University of East Anglia, UK. I study political elites, "expertise", AI
Author of "The New Experts", Cambridge Uni Press (2024)

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emilylhauser.bsky.social
Quite aside from anything else, this is what it looks like in Gaza as people try to return home. (📷: Al-Jazeera)
Picture of dozens of people walking through a scene of utter devastation, the only buildings still standing are bombed out, the rest is rubble.
October 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
India’s digital public infrastructure is going global—open-source, low-cost, scalable, writes Anuradha Sajjanhar. But big questions remain, she says: What kind of states are we building? Whose power does it serve? What politics are other nations importing? www.techpolicy.press/indias-digit...
India’s Digital Infrastructure Is Going Global. What Kind of Power Is It Building? | TechPolicy.Press
When governance is exported as infrastructure, it can sidestep political debate and embed new hierarchies, writes Anuradha Sajjanhar.
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July 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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marielza.bsky.social
We should have asked these same big questions in regards to US digital infrastructure...
techpolicypress.bsky.social Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Jul 16
India’s digital public infrastructure is going global—open-source, low-cost, scalable, writes Anuradha Sajjanhar. But big questions remain, she says: What kind of states are we building? Whose power does it serve? What politics are other nations importing?
India’s Digital Infrastructure Is Going Global. What Kind of Power Is It Building? | TechPolicy.Press
When governance is exported as infrastructure, it can sidestep political debate and embed new hierarchies, writes Anuradha Sajjanhar.
www.techpolicy.press
July 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
anuradhas.bsky.social
I write about India Stack becoming a key national export and ask a question that goes beyond the region: As digital governance is scaled, exported, and repackaged as a global good, we must ask not just what it can do, but also what it displaces.
techpolicypress.bsky.social Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Jul 16
India’s digital public infrastructure is going global—open-source, low-cost, scalable, writes Anuradha Sajjanhar. But big questions remain, she says: What kind of states are we building? Whose power does it serve? What politics are other nations importing?
India’s Digital Infrastructure Is Going Global. What Kind of Power Is It Building? | TechPolicy.Press
When governance is exported as infrastructure, it can sidestep political debate and embed new hierarchies, writes Anuradha Sajjanhar.
www.techpolicy.press
July 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
Here is a gift link to @kashhill.bsky.social's must read piece on the dangers of OpenAI's sycophantic LLMs and the parasocial relationships people are creating with them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I don’t know if it’s a masculinity thing or a managerial class thing or what. But you don’t actually have to hand it to AI. It’s okay to look at the equation and conclude it’s not worth it.
April 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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mandascott.bsky.social
Horrible

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
Not only can it not help me with my research or writing, but its surreptitious adoption by students makes teaching significantly harder, as half the job is now working on the assumption that a range of standard assignments no longer teach human beings anything, because they can simply hand them off.
May 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight.

1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral

[rant]
April 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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uea-ucu.bsky.social
📣UEA UCU members have voted for 9 days of strike action to commence this week from Thurs 1st May.
📣This is in response to management's plans to continue progressing compulsory redundancies.
📣There is still time for the employer to change course. #SaveUEA
April 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Picketing with @uea-ucu.bsky.social with fierce toddler representation
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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volts.wtf
Trump got in power & went straight after a) people & institutions that produce information & knowledge, and b) people & institutions that monitor & prevent fraud.

I know the world is full of glassy-eyed poorly-informed dipshits, but honestly, how can you construct a benign explanation of this?
March 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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jdportes.bsky.social
"Utterly delusional" does not even come close.

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On AI, where Europe is on course to over-regulate, Starmer is keen to get closer to the US. “The UK needs to move forward and seize the opportunity of not being Europe,” a source familiar with Mandelson’s letter explained. The prize, Downing Street believes, is a big one that could ease Rachel Reeves’s problems in balancing the books. “AI is transformational,” the Starmer aide said. “What you’re talking about is a level of productivity growth that means everybody in the world, in ten years’ time, is going to be more productive than the most productive person in the world today. We have to make sure that we are in a position to quickly take advantage of it.”
February 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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'generative AI is experimental'
delbertgseasons.bsky.social Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · Feb 25
I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date
Google is tripe kosher All Images Videos Shopping Forums News Al Overview Learn more : Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow. Kosher meat can be ordered online, including kosher beef tripe. ~ Generative Al is experimental.
February 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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courtneymilan.com
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
I'm reminded of Lucy Suchman's excellent 2023 piece on "The uncontroversial ‘thingness’ of AI". Suchman urges us, in critical work on "AI" not to cede the ground that "AI" is a thing at all.

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February 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
The UK joined the US in not signing the international AI declaration pledging an open, inclusive and ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence. Earlier today @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social argued that this may seem to be in the UK's interest, but in fact it isn't.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Winners and Losers at the AI Action Summit – who does the UK stand with?
The vision of the Paris AI Action Summit is for an inclusive and sustainable AI. But the current AI champions based in the USA are pushing towards an acceleration of their global dominance. Rachel …
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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mtfoyer.bsky.social
This segue is doing more work than I could ever imagine.
December 1, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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epopppp.bsky.social
The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
maybe 250 words describing status 250-ish social justice words smaller text -- 400 words on social justice and gender? And another 150 or so on race
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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kconrad.bsky.social
"The 'doomsday trap' of artificial intelligence is the dehumanization that [it] makes possible. AI is not only a technology, it's...a spectacle designed as pretext to resist empathy and create emotional distance from consequences." @eryk.bsky.social mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-fork-in-th...
A Fork in the Road
AI is an excuse that allows those with power to operate at a distance from those whom their power touches.
mail.cyberneticforests.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
Much more reassuring press release from DSIT on AI in govt today, including some v welcome diligence measures www.gov.uk/government/n...
• Rules making it mandatory in due course for every public sector organisation to publish their "application programming interfaces" or APls, which is technology that will make it easier for public sector organisations to exchange data in a secure and controlled way • A Technical Design Council led by Al and data experts will also be set up to tackle the toughest technical challenges faced by different areas of government as it puts technology to work across the public sector • Safeguards and assurance for the use of technology in the public sector, including the creation of a Responsible Al Advisory Panel, including front-line public sector workers, industry experts and civil society • Rules making it mandatory in due course for every public sector organisation to publish their "application programming interfaces" or APls, which is technology that will make it easier for public sector organisations to exchange data in a secure and controlled way • A Technical Design Council led by Al and data experts will also be set up to tackle the toughest technical challenges faced by different areas of government as it puts technology to work across the public sector • Safeguards and assurance for the use of technology in the public sector, including the creation of a Responsible Al Advisory Panel, including front-line public sector workers, industry experts and civil society
January 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
JFC. Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg are in the front row at the #inauguration.

They are sat IN FRONT of Trump’s Cabinet.

The era of oligarchy.

(📸: Julia Demaree Nikhinson, AFP)
A picture of Zuckerberg, Bezos, his girlfriend, and Musk standing in the Rotunda
January 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM