AIthropology Lab

Who I am

I am Martín González Senosiain, and this project grew out of the meeting point between my personal history, my professional path and my training in social and cultural anthropology.

I am, above all, a very happy father. I am also a migrant and the son of a Spanish Republican family. That family memory — shaped by history, exile, politics and the search for a more just life — is part of the way I look at the world. I believe in peace, in the dignity of people and in politics as a tool for change when it is driven by love, care and collective responsibility.

For many years I worked in technology, service management, customer support, operations, negotiation, supplier relations and public administration. That experience let me see from the inside how technical systems, institutions, companies and the services that mediate our daily lives are organised.

My training in social and cultural anthropology, undertaken at the UNED and the Complutense University of Madrid, has given me a new language for thinking through many of those questions: how we live, how we organise ourselves, how we produce meaning, how inequalities are built and how our ways of imagining the future change.

I am deeply grateful to the people — teachers and fellow students alike — who have been part of that learning process. This project also grows out of classes, readings, conversations, debates and shared experiences that keep widening the way I see things.

The idea behind the site

AIthropology Lab emerges from that intersection.

I do not understand artificial intelligence solely as a technology. I also understand it as a cultural, political and social phenomenon. AI is transforming work, desire, education, memory, creativity, power, war, the climate, heritage and the ways we relate to one another.

This site is an independent editorial laboratory for observing those changes through an anthropological lens. Here I gather essays, notes, a research radar, visual materials and writing experiments on artificial intelligence, everyday life, culture, the body, emotions, heritage, the climate, digital archaeology and possible futures.

I do not want to talk about AI from uncritical enthusiasm or from automatic rejection. I am interested in thinking about which forms of humanity are at stake, who gains power, who is left out, which worlds are imagined and which possibilities remain open for a shared life that is more just, more free and more caring.

Contact

For proposals, collaborations, comments or editorial contact:

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