PROGRAM
The NNAI Livescu Initiative has a multi-year program designed to support and enhance academic development, engagement and social impact.
NNAI LIVESCU PROJECTS
Psychological Warfare, Psychiatric Violence, and the Prison Industrial Complex
We organized with Dr. Danielle Carr (UCLA) a workshop on Psychological Warfare, Psychiatric Violence, and the Prison Industrial Complex, as part of her research project: Material Intelligence as Historical Problem.
The no-body problem
Workshop organized with Sarah Kareem (UCLA), which gathers a group of scholars working broadly in eighteenth-century studies under the heading of what we are calling “The No-Body Problem,” the long history of thinking about the yields of—and yieldings to—disembodied media.
COLLABORATIONS
Empire of AI: A conversation with Karen Hao
Award-winning AI reporter Karen Hao, author of the bestselling book Empire of AI, in an in-depth conversation on power, politics, and the future, with leaders in tech justice and policy, UCLA Professors Safiya U. Noble and Julia Powles at the Herb Alpert School of Music, Lani Hall, UCLA.
Data Equals: Democratic Equality & Technological Hierarchy.
Joint book presentation with with the UCLA Political Science Department to host a talk by renowned political theorist Prof. Colin Koopman (University of Oregon) about his latest book, Data Equals: Democratic Equality & Technological Hierarchy.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
MODEL STUDENT
Model Student is a collaborative project with students to construct a discussion aimed at understanding how students have been incorporating Artificial Intelligence (particularly Large Language Models) into their education.
AI, COPYRIGHT, AND WORK-MADE-FOR-HIRE
This project examines how generative AI reshapes copyright law through work-made-for-hire, interrogating authorship, ownership, institutional power, and creative labor across academia and cultural production globally.