Webinar: Fighting Weaponized Technology in Higher Education
About the webinar
The uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across higher education poses a growing threat to academic professions. It raises concerns about work intensification, job losses, intellectual property, economic security, and the corporate capture of faculty working conditions—all of which directly impact student learning.
To discuss these pressing issues, Britt S. Paris, Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, will present the webinar “Fighting Weaponized Technology in Higher Education”. The event is free and open to all the Ulysseus community but registration is mandatory.
This session is part of the VOILA! seminars, organised by EFELIA Côte d’Azur – French School of Artificial Intelligence. These seminars aim to explore the frontiers of AI in an inclusive and open manner, welcoming everyone. The goal is to provide insights and answers to major societal and academic questions on topics such as AI & Environment, AI & Work, AI & Education, AI & Media, AI & Law, AI & Creativity, AI & Health, and much more.
About the speaker
Britt S. Paris
Chair of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) national ad hoc committee on AI in the profession. She is also on the executive board of her local AAUP chapter at Rutgers University. Paris is an associate professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University.
Paris is a critical informatics scholar studying the political economy of information infrastructure, as it relates to evidentiary standards and political action. Her book: Radical Infrastructures: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up” published with University of California Press will be available in January 2026. Previously, she has published work on Internet infrastructure projects, artificial intelligence-generated information objects, digital labor, and civic data, analyzed through the lenses of science and technology studies, political economy, cultural studies, and social epistemology. These streams of research focus on developing a broader understanding of the social, political, economic, and historical forces that have shaped our current information and communication environment to allow us to envision and organize political will around a future worth fighting for.
Paris has her MA in Media Studies from the New School in New York City and her PhD in Information Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is an alumni of Data & Society Research Institute where she published a landmark critique on generative AI – on deepfakes – in 2019. She joined the faculty at Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science in Fall 2019. She was promoted to Associate Professor in Spring 2025.