Technology and Society
Shreeharsh KelkarMy focus on this blog will be the intersection of science, technology and society: everything from the history and current status of AI and software; the relationship between science and politics, and how technology is changing workplaces and expertise.
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Are Surveillance Capitalists Behaviorists? No. Does It Matter? Maybe.
I didn’t find the time to write a post for this week so I thought I’d post something I wrote before (and posted on Medium). This way, I can also consolidate all my writing on this Substack. Enjoy! And I would love any feedback.
Min...
Is the Mellon Foundation to blame for "woke"?
I fed Gemini this entire piece and this is the image it came up with.
Last week, former academic and literary scholar, and now Atlantic staff writer, Tyler Austin Harper wrote a very good piece on the Mellon Foundation and its funding cho...
Do open-weight AI models make watermarking useless?
Gemini made this image after I fed it the whole article and I have to say I quite like it!
My op-ed in The Chronicle of Higher Education attracted a response from Clay Shirky which the Chronicle has titled “Academics Are Still in Denial A...
The Solution to AI Cheating Is Within Our Grasp
My last post was more than four months ago — on September 11, 2025 — and in that post, I promised readers that I would be writing a series of posts on how digitization is changing work. Obviously, I didn’t write anything (though I did start...
How is digitization changing work? An introduction
Made by Google Gemini when I gave it the headline and the tagline.
Clearly, the digitization of life — the fact that we use networked software for almost every task — means that the way we work has changed. We have managed to embed softwa...
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I am a continuing lecturer at UC-Berkeley affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF). I write about the history and future of AI, its implications for work and labor, and on the relationship between politics, expertise, and democracy.
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