Critical AI Discussion Group
The Critical AI discussion group is open to community members, researchers, tech workers, students, designers, and anyone who wants to better understand critiques of (and critical approaches to) generative AI.
Based in the Greater Toronto Area, we have participants from around the world for our virtual sessions. We also plan to hold in-person, local sessions. If you are outside of the GTA, we encourage you to organize your own local node.
To receive the readings and meeting link, go to https://bit.ly/CriticalAIDiscussion. For accessibility requests, please email ahamraie@proton.me.
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Readings
May 2026
Emily Bender and Alex Hanna, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want (2025).
June 2026
1. Tech Won't Save Us podcast, "Silicon Valley is Turning Nurses into Gig Workers," June 11, 2026 (Link to video) (Link to audio-only podcast episode)
2. Rua Williams, "On Being an Outlier: Bias in a Culture of Optimization."
July 2026
1. Marta Choroszewicz and Antti Rannisto, "AI innovation at the boundaries: Justifying a generative AI decision support tool," Big Data and Society, 2026 (open source).
2. Rua Williams, “A Taxonomy of AI,” in Disabling Intelligences (2025)
3. The Multiverse School, AI Problems Index.
4. Thomas Gieryn, “Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists,” American Sociological Review 48 (1983).