Please join us at the CAMRI seminar Thursday next week Book launch: AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives Date: Thursday, 16 December 2021 Time: 17.00-19.00 (UK time) Location: Online event - Zoom Meeting (please register so that we can send you the Zoom link) Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-ai-for-everyone-critical-perspect... We are entering a new era of technological determinism and solutionism in which governments and business actors are seeking data-driven change, assuming that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now inevitable and ubiquitous. But we have not even started asking the right questions, let alone developed an understanding of the consequences. Urgently needed is debate that asks and answers fundamental questions about power. This book brings together critical interrogations of what constitutes AI, its impact and its inequalities in order to offer an analysis of what it means for AI to deliver benefits for everyone. To celebrate the publication of AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives, join its editor Pieter Verdegem and a panel of its contributors to discuss some of the key contemporary themes in this exciting area. Panelists will include Willian Araújo, Angela Daly, Lina Dencik, Rafael Grohmann, Dan McQuillan, Jenna Ng, Carrie O'Connell, Rainer Rehak, James Steinhoff. AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives is published open access by the University of Westminster Press: https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/e/10.16997/book55/ Biography Pieter Verdegem is Senior Lecturer in Media Theory in the Westminster School of Media and Communication and a member of the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster. His research investigates the political economy of digital media and the impact of digital technologies on society. He is editor of AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives, published in 2021 by University of Westminster Press. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.