Inga Ulnicane

🆕 What is the role of ethics advice in policy? How is it organized and who is providing it? How has it influenced policy on AI, data and pandemics?

New article @cssjournal.bsky.social from our global team on ethics advice and policy in UK, Germany & Australia doi.org/10.1080/2158... #PublicPolicy

Happening today - my talk on government, power and AI policy at 5pm Cambridge Judge Business School, Lecture Theatre 3. All welllcome!

📚 On #WorldBookDay here are some recent reads that have left lasting impression:

- Banu Mushtaq 'Heart Lamp'
- Olga Tokarczuk 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'
- Yaa Gyasi 'Homegoing'
- Olga Tokarczuk 'Flights'
- Han Kang 'We Do Not Part'

#booksky

Artificial Intelligence and Power in Government Bringing together scholars from public policy, public management and law, this book examines the relationship between AI and power in government

My chapter is part of this amazing forthcoming book 'Artificial Intelligence and Power in Government: Law, Policy and Management' edited by Sorin Dan, Niina Mäntylä and Jane E Fountain link.springer.com/book/9783032... #AI

My talk will be based on my forthcoming chapter 'The roles of government in AI governance and policymaking: re-shaping or re-enforcing power asymmetries?'

Preprint available here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #AI

Government, Power and Artificial Intelligence Policy Dr Inga Ulnicane considers the explosive rise of AI and its implications for power balances and how governments should consider this

📢 This Friday, 6 March at 5pm I will give a talk 'Government, Power and Artificial Intelligence Policy' at the Judge Business School Lecture Theatre 3 Cambridge

All invited! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/government... #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Coming soon! With Cambridge University Press - Studying Public Policy: Connecting Theory to Practice, Fifth ed. by Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh and Anthony Perl - June 2026

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Two more weeks to apply for the 2025 ECPR Knowledge Politics and Policies Standing Group excellent paper award from an emerging scholar ecpr.eu/news/news/de...

PSA26 Annual Conference - Political Studies Association Join us in Oxford to discuss ‘Political Studies Futures’ “The best gathering for politics scholars in the UK and beyond” – PSA25 delegate Open to both members and non-members, the PSA annual…

#PSA26 Annual Conference
30 March - 1 April, Oxford. Registration deadline 12 March
You can find programme and delegate information on the PSA26 webpage

Call for Special Issue Proposals!

Deadline extended to: 15 March

The Editors welcome proposals for Special Issues of 6-8 original research articles on a shared theme.

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@bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

Close-up of two flags side by side: the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag in the foreground and a blurred blue European Union flag with yellow stars in the background

Today, four years ago Russia started its full-scale and illegal war of aggression against Ukraine.

We stand firm with Ukraine for a just and lasting peace. For a strong and sovereign Ukraine in a strong and sovereign Europe.

Read the joint statement: link.europa.eu/k3BB3x

🆕 What is the role of ethics advice in policy? How is it organized and who is providing it? How has it influenced policy on AI, data and pandemics?

New article @cssjournal.bsky.social from our global team on ethics advice and policy in UK, Germany & Australia doi.org/10.1080/2158... #PublicPolicy

How AI amplifies gender, racial & other types of bias & offsets earlier progress on equality, my research here doi.org/10.1111/ropr... & here doi.org/10.17645/si.... This cannot be addressed just by technical fixes but needs socio-technical approaches including change of culture, regulation & power

At Harbour House @ecpr.bsky.social to talk all things Artificial Intellignce politics and policy with brilliant colleagues from around the world

🌟 Enjoy free access to our journal Editors’ top articles from recent issues. Access these articles for free until 30 April. Congrats to all featured authors! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...

India AI Impact Summit 2026 takes place this week. Here is our blog post on what to expect from it and how does it compare with previous AI summits www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/... #AI

EU Ombudswoman probes use of AI to evaluate research funding bids The European Ombudswoman, Teresa Anjinho, has opened an inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence by external experts evaluating EU funding proposals, to determine whether sufficient safeguards ...

EU Ombudswoman probes use of AI to evaluate research funding bids sciencebusiness.net/news/ai/eu-o... #AI #HorizonEU @sciencebusiness.net

Call for Special Issue Proposals!

The Editors welcome proposals for Special Issues comprising 6-8 original research articles on a shared theme.

Deadline: 28 Feb

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

@bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

Excellent Paper Competition 2025 European Consortium for Political Research

📢 Calling all emerging scholars in the field of Knowledge Politics and Policies

Please consider applying for the 2025 excellent paper award of the ECPR Knowledge Politics and Policies Standing Group

Deadline 15 March, more info on how to apply here ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @ecpr.bsky.social

Assetizing academic content and the emergence of the ‘assetizen’: education platforms, publisher databases, and AI model training - Higher Education Higher Education - Academic content, such as teaching materials and academic publications, has become an economic resource. This has occurred through assetization as the key economic regime in...

New OA article just out on "assetizing academic content" led by @jkom.bsky.social with me, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Klaus Beiter, exploring how academic materials are turned into value-generating digital assets by HE institutions, edtech platforms, and AI companies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thank you!

Artificial Intelligence politics and policy in uncertain times European Consortium for Political Research

✨ Nice to see our panel 'Artificial Intelligence politics and policy in uncertain times' with five great papers accepted for #ecprgc26

Continuing our conversation on #AI politics and policy for 7th year in a row ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @ecpr.bsky.social

Now being read at PDP

Risk-based approach to EU AI act: benefits and challenges of co-regulation by Ronit Justo-Hanani

Browse it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✍️Want to advance scholarship on evidence-based policy, policy advice & expertise?

See @evidencepolicy.bsky.social call for special issue proposals, deadline 28 February bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... #evidence #policy

Other Cultures of AI (online seminar series) Other Cultures of AI explores how today’s AI reflects a specific cultural and epistemic lineage. Bringing together scholars examining alternative traditions, epistemologies, and imaginaries, we will c...

This looks good:

Other Cultures of AI (online seminar series)
www.eventbrite.com/cc/other-cul...

Happening tomorrow, 27 January, more info here cpai.ku.dk/events/refra... #AI

India AI Impact Summit 2026: The key questions - LCFI Dr Rachel Adams, Dr Tomasz Hollanek, Dr Maya Indira Ganesh, Dr Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh and Dr Inga Ulnicane from the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) share their insights about the u...

What can we expect and what should we be demanding from India AI Summit?
Our researchers share their insights about the upcoming summit in India. Find out more:
www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

Interesting talk by @ingaulnicane.bsky.social on how to reframe AI policy next Tue 27 Jan! 👀 follow the link to sign up 👇

Congratulations! 🎉

Highlight of the week: yesterday we hosted our Global Politics of AI seminar focusing on international AI summits.
CFI researchers reflected on milestones from the previous summits and looked ahead at the upcoming summit in India. The discussion was led by Dr Inga Ulnicane.