1. Who am I?
2. What is critical AI studies?
3. Deep dive into current project

Microsoft Research New England

Social Media Collective

Science & Tech Studies
Comm & Cultural Studies

Anthropology

Sociology

History

Information science

Political theory, governance

Critical Algorithm Studies & Critical AI Studies

https://socialmediacollective.org/reading-lists/critical-algorithm-studies/

Room for data scientists in our field!

Undergraduate and PhD internships at Microsoft Research

• NYC: FATE PhD internships (link)
• Cambridge: Undergraduate internships (link)
• Both: Postdocs and PhD internships in cryptography, accessibility, computational social science, ML bio/healthcare, CS econ, math, ML/stats, and internet studies-- my field! (link) deadlines soon

Whose SharedPlans? Scripts, Collaboration, and Feminist AI Research

Rachel Bergmann

Social Media Collective, Microsoft Research New England

BU Guest Lecture Fall 2020

Critical histories of computing

Credit: flashbak.com

Sidner, Candace. “On Being a Woman at MIT: Or, How to Miss the Stumbling Blocks in Graduate Education.” Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter 12, no. 1 (February 1982): 13–17.

Sidner, Candace. “On Being a Woman at MIT: Or, How to Miss the Stumbling Blocks in Graduate Education.” Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter 12, no. 1 (February 1982): 13–17.

SharedPlans

NLP for conversations, not just Q & A pairs

Incorporated different knowledge and beliefs of users

Assumes user will go

"off-script"

Resonances in Science & Technology Studies

Epistemological limitations

Tech worker movements

In conclusion

These women worked to make computer science departments more open and welcoming spaces.

Thank you!

Rachel Bergmann

@rachbgm

Social Media Collective, Microsoft Research