The Critical AI Network (CAIN) is a space for the collective development of critical perspectives on AI with the aim of opening up new possibilities for intervention. Our premise is that contemporary AI is a form of computation emerging from a specific economic, political, and institutional matrix, and that challenging AI requires a rigorous effort to escape the weight of conditioned ideas that legimitise it. CAIN is an affinity-based assembly of people across disciplines and inside and outside academia that aims to reclaim the possible from the probable and to reconfigure the present for the common good. CAIN operates on the basis of solidarity and mutual support, as an experiment in the plurality of ways in which critical thought can respond to real needs in meaningful ways.

CAIN is an initiative of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. It is co-convened by a collective comprised of the following CPCT members:

Dan Mcquillan (Computing) d.mcquillan [at] gold.ac.uk
Julia Ng (Literary Studies) j.ng [at] gold.ac.uk
Andres Saenz de Sicilia (Sociology) a.saenzdesicilia [at] gold.ac.uk 
Deirdre Daly (Centre for Academic Language and Literacies) d.daly [at] gold.ac.uk
Jenny Doussan (Visual Cultures) j.doussan [at] gold.ac.uk 
Scott Wark (Visual Cultures) s.wark [at] gold.ac.uk

CAIN is open to everyone. To join the network, please subscribe to our mailing list at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=CPCT-CRITICALAINETWORK.