Resources
A curated library of 70 readings, articles, videos, and resources organized by topic. The intellectual bibliography of the course.
AI Literacy
5Public understanding of AI, civic AI education, demystification, and what everyone needs to know
Data & Society
Data & Society
Dan Fagella · Emerj.com, October 11, 2016
Bias & Representation
11Training data politics, algorithmic stereotypes, and how AI encodes and reinforces discrimination
Safiya Umoja Noble · Algorithms of Oppression, NYU Press, 2018
Kotliar · Theory and Society 49:919-939, 2020
Kate Crawford · AI & Society 36(4), 2021 (originally Sept 2019)
The Guardian, 2017
Stanford Report, May 19, 2025
Yarden Katz · Artificial Whiteness, Columbia University Press, 2020
Gabriel Nicholas & Aliya Bhatia · CDT Research, May 23, 2023
JHU, Sept 2, 2025
Copyright & Legal
4Fair use, intellectual property, training data rights, and the regulatory landscape of AI
Kyle K. Courtney · Law and Technology Resources, Jul 24, 2025
WIRED, Mar 20, 2024
Digital Humanities
6Distant viewing and reading, macroanalysis, computational text analysis, and defining data for humanists
Trevor Owens · Journal of Digital Humanities, March 16, 2012
Taylor Arnold & Lauren Tilton · Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford University Press, 2019
Ted Underwood · Distant Horizons, 2019
Mike Pepi · E-Flux 60, December 2014
Merve Tekgürler · LaTeCHCLfL 2025
Matthew Jockers · 2013
Environmental Costs
7Energy consumption, data centers, rare earth minerals, and the planetary impact of computation
Nathan Ensmenger · Your Computer Is on Fire, MIT Press, 2021
Kate Crawford · Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - YouTube, 2021
The Guardian, 2025
Institute for Advanced Study, June 9, 2025
Data & Society
Epistemology & Truth
9How we know what we know, AI hallucination, bullshit, misinformation, and the nature of machine knowledge
Hicks, M.T., Humphries, J. & Slater, J. · Ethics Inf Technol 26, 38 (2024)
Kate Crawford · e-flux, Sept 2025
Claire Wardle · Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, Spring 2023
Julie Bort · Tech Crunch, September 18, 2025
Ethics & Governance
11Algorithmic ethics, ordinary ethics, relational approaches, AI policy, and governance frameworks
Geoffrey Hinton · Diary of a CEO, YouTube, 2025
Council of Europe, December 13, 2024
Ignacio Siles · 2023
Julie Bort · Tech Crunch, September 18, 2025
Veena Das · Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein, 2020, pp. 167-172
Jeena Joseph · Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 16, 2025
Higher Education
2Universities responding to AI, institutional policy, academic culture, and the future of the university
The Verge, Sept 17, 2025
How AI Works
13Neural networks, diffusion models, language models, technical explainers, and AI demystification
Hicks, M.T., Humphries, J. & Slater, J. · Ethics Inf Technol 26, 38 (2024)
Kyle K. Courtney · Law and Technology Resources, Jul 24, 2025
Geoffrey Hinton · Diary of a CEO, YouTube, 2025
WIRED, Mar 20, 2024
Dan Fagella · Emerj.com, October 11, 2016
Identity & Selfhood
5The algorithmic self, data bodies, personal identity reshaped by AI, and digital personhood
Laila Shereen Sakr · 2023
Bjerring, J.C. & Busch, J. · AI & Soc. 40, 311-323 (2025)
Ignacio Siles · 2023
Jeena Joseph · Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 16, 2025
Laila Shereen Sakr · Nov 4, 2024
Labor & Extraction
7Data labor, cloud factories, content moderation, resource extraction, and who does the invisible work of AI
Nathan Ensmenger · Your Computer Is on Fire, MIT Press, 2021
Kate Crawford · AI & Society 36(4), 2021 (originally Sept 2019)
Yarden Katz · Artificial Whiteness, Columbia University Press, 2020
Kate Crawford · Atlas of AI, Yale University Press, 2021
Kate Crawford · Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - YouTube, 2021
Language & Translation
8Multilingual AI, low-resource languages, NLP, and failures of machine translation
The Guardian, 2017
Vivian Wang · NYTimes, Jan 29, 2025
Merve Tekgürler · LaTeCHCLfL 2025
Gabriel Nicholas & Aliya Bhatia · CDT Research, May 23, 2023
Matthew Jockers · 2013
JHU, Sept 2, 2025
Media & Journalism
7AI in newsrooms, journalism automation, AI-generated content, and media industry transformation
The Verge, Sept 17, 2025
Kate Crawford · e-flux, Sept 2025
Claire Wardle · Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, Spring 2023
Matthew Gault & Emanuel Maiberg · Jun 18, 2025
Middle East & AI
12Gulf state AI investments, Orientalism, regional tech geopolitics, and AI development in the Arab world
Sophia Goodfriend · 2023
NYTimes, Sept 2025
Curated by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian · ArteEast and e-flux
Laila Shereen Sakr · 2023
Kotliar · Theory and Society 49:919-939, 2020
Press Releases, May 12, 2025, Riyadh, KSA
NYTimes, Oct 27, 2025
Matthew Gault & Emanuel Maiberg · Jun 18, 2025
NYTimes, Sept 2025
PWC
Museums & Cultural Heritage
3Museums as databases, cultural AI guidelines, institutional digitization, and preserving heritage with technology
Taylor Arnold & Lauren Tilton · Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford University Press, 2019
Council of Europe, December 13, 2024
Mike Pepi · E-Flux 60, December 2014
Pedagogy
2Teaching methods, critical thinking frameworks, course design, and how to teach about AI critically
Power & Political Economy
13Corporate control, platform monopolies, surveillance capitalism, and who builds and owns AI systems
NYTimes, Sept 2025
Safiya Umoja Noble · Algorithms of Oppression, NYU Press, 2018
Press Releases, May 12, 2025, Riyadh, KSA
Kate Crawford · Atlas of AI, Yale University Press, 2021
Kate Crawford · Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - YouTube, 2021
The Guardian, 2025
Cory Doctorow · 27 Sep 2025
Institute for Advanced Study, June 9, 2025
NYTimes, Oct 27, 2025
Shoshana Zuboff · 2019-01-22
NYTimes, Sept 2025
Student Research
1Student-driven inquiry, original research, final presentations, and critical practice in action
Surveillance & State Power
5Algorithmic state violence, facial recognition, automated policing, and the surveillance apparatus
Sophia Goodfriend · 2023
The Guardian, 2017
Vivian Wang · NYTimes, Jan 29, 2025
Shoshana Zuboff · 2019-01-22
Laila Shereen Sakr · Nov 4, 2024
Technoculture & Art
3Arabic Glitch, ancestral computation, artist responses to AI, and creative practice in the age of algorithms
Curated by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian · ArteEast and e-flux
Laila Shereen Sakr · 2023
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