The Focus
Current Areas of Interest
Over the years, Alix has worked on a variety of topics spanning domains of the applications and implications of emerging technology. While her work is wide ranging, she has a set of four themes she is exploring in her media work, facilitation, advising, and reading.
Tech Capture of the Modern State
Investigating how public sector use of technology has become a vector for corporate capture by increasingly monopolistic companies.
Material and Human Costs of AI
Examining the environmental impact, labor conditions, and resource extraction required to sustain artificial intelligence infrastructure.
AI Narratives
How we tell the story of AI changes public attitudes, political possibilities, and even the size of the global economic investment in these technologies.
New Political Configurations
AI opens up possibilities to reconfigure politics. The darkness of the world calls out