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Saturday, October 17, 2026 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

AI Before the Ruins: Industry and Inquiry Before and After the Bubble

How should we study something like "AI"—a subject of social and capital investment that rests more on speculative promises than given technologies or use cases? Drawing on political economic analyses of the tech sector, as well as a broader set of speculative fabulation practices by fellow data centre scholars, the talk will place AI in the past tense in order to assess both what it was and what it can become.