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Articles by Shreeharsh Kelkar
The Puzzle of Gender Identity
“Self Portrait,” by photographer Claude Cahun, 1928.
The Solution to AI Cheating Is Within Our Grasp
Last semester, I decided that I would no longer assign analytical papers in any of my large social-science classes. This is a drastic change: My usual framework is that large four-unit classes should have three papers, usually written in three different styles, due throughout the term. But there was no point anymore. When ChatGPT exploded onto the scene in 2022, I was reasonably confident that my prompts were LLM-proof. I have modified them since then to make them even more so.
The "A.G.I." category hinders rather than helps in thinking about technological change and human displacement.
Ezra Klein recently interviewed Ben Buchanan, international relations scholar and Special Adviser on AI to the Biden Administration, about what the recent developments in LLM models mean for the future of human jobs.
People's political preferences come from their identities.
Scholars in my field of science and technology studies (STS) are very hard on a particular model of science and politics that they label the “public understanding of science” (PUS) model. The PUS model is often deployed when policy-makers are thinking about the decline of trust in scientific institutions. Why, when the COVID vaccine in the US was pretty much free, did so many people choose not to vaccinate themselves?
Politics—Not Psychology—Drives Politics | Public Books
Starting roughly in the second week of March 2020, a number of American cities, counties, and states issued orders to close down workplaces, schools, colleges, restaurants, and other gatherings to avoid overwhelming the medical system with COVID-19 cases. In this, America mirrored the rest of the world; but what followed in the wake of the shelter-in-place orders was unique to the United States.
Stories of Soil, Soy, and Life Otherwise
“Science polishes the gift of seeing, Indigenous traditions work with gifts of listening and language.” So explains Robin Wall Kimmerer, who is a botanist and a member of the Potawatomi Nation. Kimmerer goes on to describe her relationship to plants, whom she calls “plant elders.” For her, these plants are beings who have the capacity to learn, who have memory, who are kin.
Making platforms work: relationship labor and the management of publics
Abstract How do digital platforms govern their users? Existing studies, with their focus on impersonal and procedural modes of governance, have largely neglected to examine the human labor through which platform companies attempt to elicit the consent of their users. This study describes the relationship labor that is systematically excised from many platforms’ accounts of what they do and missing from much of the scholarship on platform governance.
“We do software so that you can do education”: The curious case of MOOC platforms
These days, the word “platform” is commonly used to refer to entities like Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. These portals are sites of public discourse and see their role as connecting various sorts of publics: video producers to viewers, journalists to readers, or advertisers to potential consumers.
Three Perspectives on “Fake News”
Editor’s Note: Today, Shreeharsh Kelkar brings us the inaugural post in a new series on Fake News and the Politics of Knowledge. The goal is to tackle the knowledge politics of both so-called “fake news” itself and the discourse that has cropped up around it, from a wide range of theoretical perspectives on media, science, technology, and communication. If you are interested in contributing, please write to editor@castac.org with a brief proposal.
How (Not) to Talk about AI
Most CASTAC readers familiar with science and technology studies (STS) have probably had conversations with friends—especially friends who are scientists or engineers—that go something like this: Your friend says that artificial intelligence (AI) is on its way, whether we want it or not. Programs (or robots, take your pick) will be able to do a lot of tasks that, until now, have always needed humans.
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