The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Principal Investigator: Michael Salvo
Artificial Infrastructures articulates the emergent roles of artificial intelligence specifically in high technology environments, with an eye towards the concerns of technical and professional writing experts, accessible to professionals with a wide range of proficiency. The book addresses the questions of What now? In an age when artificial agents draft text and respond to requests for unique prose. And what of the Turing Test?
Artificial Infrastructures develops a lasting argument about the nature of technology, ensuring it lasts longer than the current generation of AI tools. With a new GPT-3 (GPT-4) engine promised as this proposal is submitted, the next generation already promises to “radically disrupt” writing, and by extension, the lives and careers of writing professionals (and writing instructors & instruction). Rather than worry about the disruption of writing with the aid of technology, Artificial Infrastructures recognizes the “always already” nature of literacy and its technological enframement, arranged and presented for professional writers and professionals who write.
Other PIs: John Sherrill, independent scholar
Students: Ean Hunt, CLA Wilke Jefferey Chen, CLA Wilke Eva Braumbauer, CLA Wilke Meagan Hipsky, CLA Wilke
Sherrill, John T. & Salvo, Michael J. (2022). Automated Infrastructures: Participation’s Changing Role in Postindustrial Work. Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ), vol. 10, no. 2, Sept. 2022, 22–31, https://doi.org/10.1145/3507857.3507860.
Sherrill, John T. & Salvo, Michael J. (2022). Distant Collaborations: Designing for Australia, Ireland, Qatar, and the USA. 2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm) Proceedings, IEEE Press, 2022, 154–59. ACM Digital Library, https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm53155.2022.00031.
Michael J Salvo and John T Sherrill. 2024. A Research Ensemble of Humans, Machines, and Algorithms: Future Designs of Research and Scholarly Communication. In The 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC ’24), October 20–22, 2024, Fairfax, VA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641237.3691666
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, experience architecture, literacy, technical communication, writing