“AI and\/versus the Humanities” is the unofficial title of a course I’m teaching right now \u2014 two courses actually, one at the grad (postgrad) level and one upper-level undergrad \u2014 and I’m finding that it’s nearly impossible to keep up with the news on all things AI: “frontier model” AI agents and their shenanigans, the political economy of the global AI “race” (and\/or “bubble”), debates over regulation and policy, public perceptions, and impacts and implications for society, ecology, cognition, culture, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Below is a list of some of the more useful blogs, substacks, and tech news sites I’ve been following lately in order to keep up. It’s followed by a list of some helpful resource pages. Other recommendations are always welcome (in the comments or by e-mailing me directly<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’re interested in these topics, I’ll be posting most frequently about them in my Substack Notes<\/a>, with less frequent but longer pieces in Terrestri(e)alism;<\/a> my latest piece there was on “The ecology of self-sovereign AI ‘agents<\/a>‘.” (You can subscribe for free to both.) I’m also working on sharing some related materials, including from last year’s Joanne Brown Symposium on Generative AI and the Future of the Critical Humanities, at EcoCultureLab Vancouver’s “AI and the More-than-Humanities” web page<\/a>. You can find a description there of the three analytical perspectives we’re bringing to AI in the course (for short, I’m calling them “political ecology,” “critical humanism,” and “technotopianism”). More will come there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended substacks\/blogs and news sites, listed alphabetically (if there’s one I’d start with as an almost-daily voice of reason, it’s Gary Marcus’s “Marcus on AI”):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Other helpful resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where to follow my writing on the topic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “AI and\/versus the Humanities” is the unofficial title of a course I’m teaching right now \u2014 two courses actually, one at the grad (postgrad) level and one upper-level undergrad \u2014 and I’m finding that it’s nearly impossible to keep up with the news on all things AI: “frontier model” AI agents and their shenanigans, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-3Nf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14167,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2025\/08\/06\/the-letter-a-and-the-pronoun-i\/","url_meta":{"origin":14585,"position":0},"title":"The letter A and the pronoun I","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"August 6, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm organizing a two-day academic retreat focusing on \"Generative AI, Techno-authoritarianism, and the Future of the Critical Humanities.\" It will take place in late September, partly under the auspices of Simon Fraser University's Joanne Brown Symposium series on violence and its alternatives. 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