My colleagues and I are hosting a hybrid workshop during CHI 2025 in Yokohama

Call for Participation

In this hybrid workshop we want to explore ways of resisting, not necessarily AI per se, but the solutionist treatment it is receiving, i.e., "the idea that technology provides solutions to complex social problems" (Lindtner et al., 2016).

Participants are invited to produce a 2-3 page position paper using the ACM Primary Article Template (single column) presenting recent, ongoing work, or personal reflections on topics related to resisting AI solutionism.

Please submit your position papers to the lead organiser [email protected], by 27th February 2025, 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth).Participants should aim to respond to the following:

Tell us about some resisting (e.g. from personal experience, a project, the literature, the media, in fiction).

How do you envision resisting AI solutionism?

What could you, or others, not resist when advancing the AI cause?

How do we reimagine AI data practices?

What would it mean to privilege the outlier in AI?

How do we challenge harmful AI practices and consequences?

For more information, visit https://resisting-ai-solutionism.carrd.co/

#CHI2025 #AI #Techsolutionism #AISolutionism

Lots of #AISolutionism carries the caveat 'but of course we'll have a human review it.'

Which is weird to say if you're also saying you want to save money by using AI. Because if you have to check the AI's output, you're spending MORE time than you did before.

Which is all beside the point, because everyone in these conversations knows in their gut that if we ever do have humans in the loop, we'll cut them out (de facto or by design) after trivially few iterations.
#AIHype #GenerativeAI