My research engages publics beyond the academy through critical scholarship on artificial intelligence, the recovery of historical computing artefacts, public writing on the cultural and political issues raised by computation, and the building of open research tools and international networks.

The Finding ELIZA project, an international research collaboration, has rediscovered the MAD/SLIP source code for ELIZA, the first computer chatbot, which had been lost for over fifty years. The full account of the project is forthcoming as Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI (MIT Press, 2026). The project has attracted media attention and continuing public interest because the questions Joseph Weizenbaum raised about user trust in computers, machine intelligence, and the limits of computation in 1976 connect directly to recent anxieties about transparency, bias, and trust in AI systems.

My public scholarship through the Stunlaw blog has developed an accessible critical vocabulary for thinking about contemporary AI and the political economy of vectors, read internationally by researchers, journalists, students, and the wider public. Public lectures and keynote addresses at institutions including Copenhagen Business School, Warwick CIM, Aarhus University, the Hellenic Authors' Society, and Roskilde University extend this engagement across Europe. Through the Vector Lab open research tools, empirical questions are explored in my work and made available to researchers, educators, and journalists.

At Sussex, I co-founded and co-directed the Sussex Humanities Lab, a £3 million strategic research centre that has trained a generation of doctoral researchers in digital methods and critical computing, several of whom now hold academic positions in the UK and internationally. I am part of a developing international research network in critical artificial intelligence, with active collaborations across Denmark and continental Europe. My teaching has been recognised with Sussex Education Awards in 2019 ("Sussex Spirit") and 2024 ("Teaching to Disrupt"), and I am Otto Mønsted Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Copenhagen Business School for 2026.