We're joined this week by Dr. Chris Gilliard, Co-Director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute to talk about what generative AI means for surveillance, and how this technology disproportionately harms marginalised groups. Dr. Gilliard is a writer, professor, and speaker whose scholarship examines digital privacy, surveillance, and the intersections of race, class, and technology. His book "Luxury Surveillance" is forthcoming from MIT Press in 2026.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Critical Internet Studies Institute develops cutting-edge research and educational programs to advance public knowledge of emerging technologies and the paradoxes of innovation.
• Don't Give Surveillance for Christmas: Chris appears on the Tech Won't Save Us podcast
• How Companies Learn Your Secrets, by Charles Duhigg [PERMALINK]
• The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, by Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres [PERMALINK]
• ChatGPT Should Not Exist, by David Golumbia [PERMALINK]
• Defining AI, by Ali Alkhatib [PERMALINK]
• Practico-inertia, by Rob Horning [PERMALINK]

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