Ana Valdivia

Ana is interested in supervising projects that offer an original and critical perspective on AI, grounded in disciplines such as Science and Technology Studies (STS), Critical Data/AI Studies, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Computational Social Science (CSS). As the main convenor of the course on Algorithmic Fairness and Accountability, she invites proposals that push boundaries across disciplines and merge methodologies, exploring sociotechnical issues and the technopolitical aspects of AI. Topics related to the epistemological power of algorithms and the materiality of AI are especially welcome. She welcomes invites to develop proposals from diverse backgrounds and contexts, including political ecology, media ecologies, surveillance studies, and digital infrastructures. Below is a list of potential topics, though it is not exhaustive: - Environmental impacts of AI, from mineral extraction to e-waste landfills, including chip factories and data centres. - Surveillance technologies, predictive policing, and risk assessment tools in the welfare system, law enforcement, or court systems. - Quantitative and qualitative methods (machine learning or natural language processing intertwined with ethnographic or discourse analysis techniques); - Algorithmic accountability and legal frameworks, its benefits and limitations; - Algorithmic benefits and risks, stories from local communities and territories; - Algorithmic contestations in different geographies from a technopolitical standpoint; - Critical debates and provocations in AI Ethics.

[2026] Panagiotidou, G., Bremer, C., Cazacu, S., Görücü, S., Inie, N., Morais, L.A., Selvan, R., Snaith, B. and Valdivia, A. "HCI-TERRA: HCI Towards EnviRonmentally Responsible AI", Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings. CHI EA '26: Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM. 1-6. [2026] Muldoon, J., Valdivia, A. and Badger, A. "The politics of artificial intelligence supply chains", AI and Society. 41 (2) 1175-1187. [2025] Bejarano, N.D. and Valdivia, A. "Thirsty Forests and Expansive Droughts: The environmental impacts of data centers in Latin America", ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE. 9 (3) 937-959. [2025] Hafner, F.S., Valdivia, A.N.A. and Rocher, L. "Gender Trouble in Language Models: An Empirical Audit G