person

Genevieve Bell

ANU; vice-chancellor; cultural anthropologist

Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University since 2024; previously a senior fellow and VP at Intel, where she founded the Anthropology and User Experience research group. Distinctive cultural-anthropological perspective on AI.

current Vice-Chancellor and President, Australian National University

past Senior Fellow / VP, Intel

@feraldata

Strategy positions

Near-term harms firstendorses

Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narratives

Argues AI deployment is fundamentally a cultural and institutional question that current technical framings miss; calls for cyber-physical-social systems thinking as an alternative.

AI is best understood as a cyber-physical-social system. The technology, the infrastructure, and the cultural practices around it are the unit of analysis.

¶ articleGenevieve Bell, ANU School of Cybernetics· ANU· 2021· faithful paraphrase

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