Dan McQuillan

Dan McQuillan is a Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing, and has a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics. Prior to academia he worked as Amnesty International's Director of E-communications. Recent publications include 'Algorithmic States of Exception', 'Data Science as Machinic Neoplatonism' and 'Algorithmic Paranoia and the Convivial Alternative'. d.mcquillan@gold.ac.uk | @danmcquillan

Towards an anti-fascist AI

We already know the destructive consequences on the individual and collective psyche of poverty, racism and systemic neglect. We don't need AI as targeting but as something that helps raise up whole populations.

By Dan McQuillan

/ 25 May 2019

Mental health and artificial intelligence: losing your voice

While we still can, let us ask, "Will AI exacerbate discrimination?" as the productive forces of mental health are restructured within a techno-psychiatric complex. Poem.

By Dan McQuillan

/ 12 Nov 2018

Mental health and artificial intelligence: losing your voice

While we still can, let us ask, "Will AI exacerbate discrimination?" as the productive forces of mental health are restructured within a techno-psychiatric complex. Poem.

By Dan McQuillan

/ 12 Nov 2018

Rethinking AI through the politics of 1968

We need to pursue a political philosophy that was embraced in '68, of living the new society through authentic action in the here and now.

By Dan McQuillan

/ 13 Oct 2018

Manifesto on algorithmic humanitarianism

The nature of machine learning operations mean they will actually deepen some humanitarian problematics and introduce new ones of their own. This banality of machine learning is also its power.

By Dan McQuillan

/ 4 Apr 2018