Grayson Richards, PhD.



Writer, researcher, and artist focusing on issues of digital privacy, surveillance, and freedom of online assembly.












Upcoming and Recent Activities

Organizer and chair of the panel “As If: Speculative Performances of AI Futures,” at 4S 2026: Technopower | Technoscientific Futures, Oct. 2026. Toronto, ON.

“Nothing to See Here: The ‘Safe’ Generative Model as Counterinsurgent Intensification,” research presentation at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Nov. 2024. Seoul, South Korea.

“The Synthetic Complex,” presentation at 4S 2023 Honolulu, Society for the Social Studies of Science, Nov. 2023. Honolulu, HI.

“As If: Expectation as Worldmaking Fiction,” published in TBA: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture, 4(1), p. 130-145, Jan. 2023.