Dr Deepak Padmanabhan

Senior Lecturer

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS)

Expert in socio-political implications of Artificial Intelligence and allied technologies. Research includes relationships between AI and disinformation, democracy, elections and cooperativism.

Research interests located in the politics of Artificial Intelligence, with a critical political economic perspective. Interested in understanding how technologies that come with a promise of a better future end up undermining human agency, human co-operation and the social structures that we have built up over the course of centuries for our good.

Fields

ECIT Technology

Areas of Expertise

Artificial Intelligence, Critical Studies of Technology

Media Experience

Interviews (broadcast and print), expert comment, op-ed

Notable coverage

https://theconversation.com/ai-could-help-cut-voter-fraud-but-its-far-more-likely-to-disenfranchise-you-221573

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68383587

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68316683

 

Associated Research Centres / Projects

Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action (SECA)

ECIT Institute

Contact Information

For more information or to book an interview, email comms.office@qub.ac.uk

@deepakp7

Academic Profile