Welcome! I’m interested in the politics, practices and history of artificial intelligence, particularly how AI and synthetic data are shaping knowledge production in health and medicine. My research sits at the intersection of STS, philosophy of science and the medical humanities.
I am an Assistant Professor at Durham University, working on a UKRI AI Metascience project “Synthetic Metascience: Tracing Artificial Intelligence-generated epistemic shifts in scientific research practice and cultures”, which investigates how synthetic data is shaping knowledge-building and epistemic cultures in medical research. I also am theme co-lead of the AI and Artificial Intelligence theme at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at Durham University, and founded/co-lead the AI Ethics and Society group.
I was previously a postdoc in the Algorithmic Societies project at Durham University, working with the wonderful Louise Amoore, Alex Campolo, Ludovico Rella and Ben Jacobsen. Before I worked at Durham University, I did postdoctoral research at the Alan Turing Institute and the Centre for Technomoral Futures (and in the deep past, did an AI Masters degree before working in data science for the NHS).
you can contact me at sj[dot]bennett[at]durham[dot]ac[dot]uk
SJ Bennett 