Welcome! I’m SJ aka Sam. I’m interested in the politics, practices and history of artificial intelligence, particularly how AI and synthetic data are transforming knowledge production in health and medicine. My research (very) roughly sits at the intersection of STS, philosophy and the medical humanities. I am also passionate about community-building and collaboration, co-organising events to share knowledge and build relationships, which I think is more important than ever in these trying times!
Currently I am a researcher in the Algorithmic Societies project at Durham University, working with the wonderful Louise Amoore, Alex Campolo, Ludovico Rella and Ben Jacobsen. I was recently awarded an AI Metascience fellowship by UKRI, and look forward to starting my project “Synthetic Metascience: Tracing Artificial Intelligence-generated epistemic shifts in scientific research practice and cultures” in November, continuing at Durham University.
I also am theme co-lead of the AI and Artificial Intelligence theme at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at Durham University, founded and continue to co-lead the AI Ethics and Society group, and co-organise the Gender and Sexuality Data Lab at the University of Edinburgh.
Before I worked at Durham University, I did postdoctoral research at the Alan Turing Institute and the Centre for Technomoral Futures.
you can contact me at sj[dot]bennett[at]durham[dot]ac[dot]uk
SJ Bennett 