Critical Science

Reading Group at Mila

Bibliography

Here, we include a bibliography that has served or could serve as inspiration for our discussions. It is sorted by chronological order.


The Responsibility of Intellectuals. Noam Chomsky. The New York Review of Books. 1967. Online

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. Carolyn Merchant. Harper & Row. 1980. Wikipedia

The Dialectical Biologist. Richard Levins, Richard Lewontin. Harvard University Press. 1985. Wikipedia

Military Funds, Moral Demands, Personal Responsibilities of the Individual Scientist . Douglas P. Lackey. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1989. Online

Science as Social Knowledge: : Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry. Helen Longino. Princeton University Press. 1990. JSTOR

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Publisher. 1999. Wikipedia

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Robin Wall Kimmerer. Milkweed Editions. 2013. Wikipedia

Can neuroscience change our minds?. Hilary Rose, Steven Rose. Polity. 2016. archive.org

The myth of apolitical science. Alex Wellerstein. Science. 2018. Science

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Ruha Benjamin. Polity. 2019. Wikipedia

Yes, Science Is Political. Alyssa Shearer, Ingrid Joylyn Paredes, Tiara Ahmad, Christopher Jackson. Scientific American. 2020. Online

Stick to the science: when science gets political. Nick Howe. Nature. 2020. Podcast

Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence. Shakir Mohamed, Marie-Therese Png, William Isaac. Philosophy and Technology. 2020. arXiv

Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power. Pratyusha Kalluri. Nature. 2020. Online

The Deep Sociality of Science. Understanding Science as a Cooperative Process. Jessica A. F. Thompson. Science for the People Magazine. Volume 24, No. 3. Cooperation: Theory and Practice for the Commons. 2021. Science for the People

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Kate Crawford. Yale University Press. 2021. Wikipedia

Richard Lewontin, Dialectical Materialism, the Relationship Between Evolutionary Biology and Marxism. Erik I. Svensson. Science for the People Magazine. Lewontin Memorial Collection. 2021. Science for the People

The Folly of Apolitical Science. Johnathan Flowers. Bioethics Today. 2021. Online

The steep cost of capture. Meredith Whittaker. ACM Interactions. 2021. Article

The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research. Abeba Birhane, Pratyusha Kalluri, Dallas Card, William Agnew, Ravit Dotan, Michelle Bao. Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. 2022. Online

Behavioral Use Licensing for Responsible AI. Danish Contractor, Daniel McDuff, Julia Katherine Haines, Jenny Lee, Christopher Hines, Brent Hecht, Nicholas Vincent, and Hanlin Li. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). 2022. Online

Responsible AI licenses: a practical tool for implementing the OECD Principles for Trustworthy AI. Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis. OECD.AI. 2022. Online

Dismantling AI capitalism: the commons as an alternative to the power concentration of Big Tech. Pieter Verdegem. AI & Society. 2022. Article

Reclaiming epistemic diversity: between community struggles and corporate capture. David Ludwig, Fabio Gatti, Esther Milberg Muñiz. Science for the People Magazine. Volume 26, no. 2 Ways of Knowing. 2023. Science for the People

Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability. Christoph Becker. The MIT Press. 2023. Open Access

AI art and its impact on artists. Harry H. Jiang, Lauren Brown, Jessica Cheng, Mehtab Khan, Abhishek Gupta, Deja Workman, Alex Hanna, Johnathan Flowers, Timnit Gebru. Arms Embargo Now. 2023. Article

How scientists can contribute to the social movements essential to protecting climate and nature. Abigail J. Perrin, Stuart Capstick, Tracey Elliott, Peter Knapp, Aaron Thierry, Tristram D. Wyatt, Charlie J. Gardner. npj Climate Action. 2023. Article

Information Technology Beyond Capitalism. Christoph Becker. University of Toronto. 2024. Course

On the Standardization of Behavioral Use Clauses and Their Adoption for Responsible Licensing of AI. Daniel McDuff, Tim Korjakow, Scott Cambo, Jesse Josua Benjamin, Jenny Lee, Yacine Jernite, Carlos Munoz Ferrandis, Aaron Gokaslan, Alek Tarkowski, Joseph Lindley, A. Feder Cooper, Danish Contractor. arXiv. 2024. arXiv

Basic Research, Lethal Effects: Military AI Research Funding as Enlistment. David Gray Widder, Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman. arXiv. 2024. Article

The Problem of Sustainable AI. Paul Schütze. Weizenbaum Journal. 2024. Article

Data Feminism for AI. Lauren Klein, Catherine D'Ignazio. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). 2024. Article

From economy of occupation to economy of genocide. Francesca Albanese. Human Rights Council, United Nations. 2025. Report

Exposing Canadian military exports to Israel. Multiple authors from various organisations. Arms Embargo Now. 2025. Report

Position: The Right to AI. Rashid Mushkani, Hugo Berard, Allison Cohen, Shin Koseki. ICML. 2025. Article