Essays, Editorials, and Other Public Writing

“ChatGPT is Mickey Mouse.” Daily Nous (13 March 2023).

"AI’s boosters don’t love you back." In Artificial Intelligence in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust, edited by Anna Brandusescu and Jess Reia, 91-92. Montreal: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal, McGill University, 2022.

“For Canadian youth, facial recognition technologies are a canary in the coal mine.” National Post, 19 November 2021.

Facial Recognition & Canadian Youth. Kids & Technology Essay Series, Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, McGill University (November 2021).

Solon Barocas, Asia J. Biega, Margarita Boyarskaya, Kate Crawford, Hal Daumé III, Miroslav Dudík, Benjamin Fish, Mary L. Gray, Brent Hecht, Alexandra Olteanu, Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh, Luke Stark, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hanna Wallach, and Marion Zepf. “Responsible Computing During COVID-19 and Beyond.” Communications of the ACM 64, no. 7 (July 2021): 30-32. 10.1145/3466612.

“Book Review: John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger, and Christina Vagt, Action at a Distance.” International Journal of Communication 15 (2021): 3154–3156.

"Facial Recognition is the Plutonium of AI," ACM XRDS 25(3) (Spring 2019), 50-55.

Stark, Luke and Zenon W. Pylyshyn, “Artificial Intelligence in Canada,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, November 13, 2018. “Review Essay: De-sanctifying the Charisma of Numbers,” Journal of Cultural Economy, October 2018. doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2018.1527710

“Silicon Valley wants to improve your ‘digital well-being’ — and collect more of your personal data along the way,” The Boston Globe, July 24, 2018.

“Start treating private personal data on Facebook like medical data,” New York Daily News, March 24, 2018.

“Canada’s risky bet on AI,” The Globe & Mail, March 24, 2018.

Anthony, Denise and Luke Stark, “Don’t quit Facebook, but don’t trust it either,” The Conversation, March 23, 2018.

“The Long History of Computer Science and Psychology Comes Into View,” Slate, March 18, 2018.

“Recognizing the Role of Emotional Labor in the On-Demand Economy,” Harvard Business Review, August 26, 2016.

Hoffmann, Anna Lauren and Luke Stark, “Hard Feelings: Inside Out, Silicon Valley, and Why Technologizing Emotion and Memory Is a Dangerous Idea,” Los Angeles Review of Books, September 11, 2015.

Stark, Luke and Kate Crawford, “The Conservatism of Emoji,” The New Inquiry, August 20, 2014.“

Come On Feel The Data (and Smell It),” The Atlantic. May 19, 2014.