AI experts meet AI narratives on Bluesky

We are conducting a study about AI narratives* on social media and working with groups of broadly defined ‘AI experts’ coming from different fields to collect opinions, try out a new annotations system for BlueSky created by our colleagues in Copenhagen, have discussions and record them. Ideally, we’d like to see a broad range of interdisciplinary fields represented, so you (we) — WASP-HS people — are, naturally, the best candidates to invite.

The workshop should take about 3 hours. Here is the tentative schedule:

• Introduction of the project and the annotation system;
• Trying out the system and annotating posts contributing to AI discourse on BlueSky individually;
• Coffee break;
• Comparing notes;
• Discussion: Which tropes did you see/expect to see? Are any of them directly relevant to your field of expertise? What was missing?;
• Annotation system feedback.

This is all relatively informal, and some participants from the first iteration even claimed that it was fun. Besides helping us a lot with our study and catching up with colleagues, other reasons you might want to join:

Share the narratives and tropes that are dominant in your areas of interest, and compare our observations.

Talk at length about that one popular AI trope that you find so annoying.

Try out the new annotation tool for narratives that our colleagues in Copenhagen are developing. It integrates annotations with the rich social network metadata and might be interesting in itself if you work with social media analysis.

Host: Igor Ryazanov