Talked AI infrastructure, speculation, and real utopias with students at Leiden today.
This was a guest lecture for the course AI in Society. I presented the argument from my position paper, People's Compute, and used the occasion to pilot some new material I am developing on speculative design and realism, with the working title Grounded Futures. The students were a thoughtful bunch and gave me a lot of provocative and helpful questions to chew on.
As usual, the slides are on my website. https://contestable.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/designing-ai-otherwise-leiden-university-20260504-optimized.pdf
Many thanks to Zane Kripe for the invitation.