Finola Finn
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Finola Finn
@finolafinn.bsky.social
Historian of early modern health, religion, & emotions | Critical AI studies & historiography
Postdoc at C²DH, University of Luxembourg
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- Iqra Aslam, Rahul Nagshi, and Donal Khosrowi’s critical examination of Machine Unlearning

- Bonam Mingole et al.’s work on the value of democratising bias detection and critique of LLMs

A lot to take away! All full papers available here: www.aies-conference.com/2025/proceed...
November 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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- Maria Eriksson et al.’s thorough and policy-focused review of current issues in AI benchmarking

- Hyo Jin Do and Werner Geyer’s recommendations for how best to present factuality estimates to users in AI-generated answers
November 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Among the many thought-provoking contributions, I was particularly struck by:

- Shreya Chappidi et al.’s “accountability capture”, a framework for understanding the under-considered effects of implementing algorithmic record-keeping on sociotechnical systems
November 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The whiteboards were full with opinions and experiences by the session’s end. Many thanks to the participants and my co-panellists Stefan Esselborn, @cgoetter.bsky.social, and @nescioquid.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We explored such questions as: What new teaching and research methods are becoming possible? What skills should we teach students in the age of AI? What can History of Technology contribute to the discussion?
October 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Alongside the fairground rides, an additional highlight was presenting my research on uses of the soul-body relationship in 17thC accounts of melancholy in this gorgeous pub! A delightful juxtaposition. Many thanks to everyone who squeezed into the lounge room to hear our panel
July 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Such a great evening!
June 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Highlights for me included @myra.bsky.social et al’s work on measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors, and Prakhar Ganesh et al’s tutorial on the implications of multiplicity for fairness and explainability in algorithmic decision-making (plus much more!)
June 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The video itself also seeks to challenge “the vastness of digital memory and its overwhelming flood of images” through the use of the oral traditions of poetry and song. More about these thought-provoking works here: www.uni.lu/life-en/even...
Silicon Islands and War Exhibition
In the framework of the European Month of Photography (EMoP), this exhibition discusses how in an era of unprecedented AI development, the nature of
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June 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
… reminding us that “the production chain of images is becoming an increasingly complex web of resource supply, energy consumption, and cutting-edge chip manufacturing” - shaped and driven by geopolitics, especially between China, the U.S, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
June 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our full article on the CCC framework was published in AI & Ethics last year, and is available here:
doi.org/10.1007/s436...
Engaging the many-hands problem of generative-AI outputs: a framework for attributing credit - AI and Ethics
The recent wave of generative AI (GenAI) systems like Stable Diffusion or ChatGPT that can produce images, text and code from human prompts raises controversial issues about creatorship, originality, ...
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June 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We were excited to see many other teams also working to address the moral, legal and regulatory uncertainties that surround GenAI use – and it was fantastic to discuss these issues at such an interdisciplinary and vibrant event!
June 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Our presentation outlined the Collective-Centered Creation framework (developed by Donal Khosrowi, Elinor Bell-Clark, and me), which provides an approach for tracking and assessing the significance of different contributions, by humans and machines, to the creation of GenAI images.
June 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The conference was full of thought-provoking and motivating reflections on what British history can do for the present - and I’m really glad to have been a part of it!
May 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM