Grayson Richards, PhD.



Writer, researcher, and artist working on issues of AI governance, critical disinformation, privacy & surveillance. 












Upcoming and Recent Activities

“All Smokescreen, No Fire in Data Center Foreign Influence Claims,” published with Tech Policy Press, Sept. 15, 2026.

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

Presenting “Generativity and Emancipatory Counter- visualization,” at 4S 2026: Technopower | Technoscientific Futures, Oct. 2026. Toronto, ON.

Running the workshop “Insurgent AI: Speculative Narratives & Cosmologies,” together with Fan Wu at CACS-ACÉC: Upheavals, Nov. 2026. Trent University.

Presenting “Generative Commons: Speculative AI as Democratic Resource,” as part of the Cultural Studies Annual Speaker Series at Trent University. January 2027.