On the day itself, I was honored to have as my external committee members professors Dignum, L\u00f6wgren, van Zoonen, and van de Poel, professor Vo\u00fbte as the chair, and Joost and Mireia as my paranymphs.<\/p>\n\n\n
The thesis PDF<\/a> can be downloaded at the TU Delft repository, and a video of the proceedings<\/a> is available on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n Me, with a copy of the thesis, shortly before starting the layperson’s talk. Photo: Roy Borghouts<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n Reviewing my notes since the last update<\/a>, below are some more notable things that happened in the past eight months.<\/p>\n\n\n I will continue at TU Delft as a postdoctoral researcher and will stay focused on design, AI, and politics, but I will try to evolve my research into something that builds on my thesis work but adds a new angle.<\/p>\n\n\n The Envisioning Contestability Loops article mentioned in previous updates is now in press with She Ji<\/a>, which I am very pleased about. It should be published “soon.”<\/p>\n\n\n Upcoming appearances include a brief talk on participatory AI at a Cities Coalition for Digital Rights event<\/a> and a presentation as part of a panel on The Mutual Shaping Of Democratic Practices And AI at TILTing Perspectives 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n That’s it for this final PhD update. I will probably continue these posts under a new title. We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am writing this final PhD update as a freshly minted doctor. On Thursday, May 23, 2024, I successfully defended my thesis, ‘Contestable Artificial Intelligence: Constructive Design Research for Public Artificial Intelligence Systems that are Open and Responsive to Dispute.’ I started the PhD on September 1, 2018 (read the very first update posted on … Continue reading PhD update \u2013 June 2024<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[625],"tags":[1186],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-phd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/RoyBorghoutsFotografie-230524-TUDDrAlfrink-009.jpg?resize=660%2C440&ssl=1\")
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Looking ahead<\/h2>\n\n\n