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.
“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.
