Sarah Dillon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Dillon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Dillon |
| SIGNATURE | DILLON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6659-2606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The BS meter
What can we learn about language from studying how it is used by ChatGPT and other large language model (LLM)-based chatbots? In this paper, we analyse the distinctive character of language generated by ChatGPT, in relation to questions raised by natural language processing pioneer, and student of Wittgenstein, Margaret Masterman. Following frequent complaints that LLM-based chatbots produce “bullshit,” in the sense of Frankfurt’s popular monogra…
Co‐Producing Training Resources to Improve Healthcare Experiences for Young Women and Reduce Gendered Health Inequalities
Service user involvement in the education of allied healthcare professionals in Ireland
Cancer clinical trial recruitment for patients from rural areas
BACKGROUND: This work will explore the literature on recruiting patients from rural and remote areas to cancer clinical trials. By examining the definitions employed, identifying levers and barriers to recruitment, and describing initiatives to promote recruitment, we seek to inform the development of future trials with these populations. METHODS: A scoping review of primary research published since 2004 relating to the recruitment of patients fr…
Histories of artificial intelligence
Like the polar bear beleaguered by global warming, artificial intelligence (AI) serves as the charismatic megafauna of an entangled set of local and global histories of science, technology and economics. This Themes issue develops a new perspective on AI that moves beyond conventional origin myths – AI was invented at Dartmouth in the summer of 1956, or by Alan Turing in 1950 – and reframes contemporary critique by establishing plural genealogies…
What AI researchers read
This paper presents the results of a pilot interview study investigating the leisure reading habits of 20 practising AI researchers based in the United Kingdom. The interview analysis yields six areas in which literature plays a role in the field of AI: research focus, career choice, community formation, science communication, ethical thinking, and modelling of sociotechnical futures. These categories are proposed as the basis of a systematic tax…
Storylistening
Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning. Dillon and Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other forms of evidence, including that from science. Focusing on the cognitive and the collective, Dillon and Craig show how stories offer alternative points of view, create and cohere collective identitie…
Futures of autonomous flight
AI Narratives
On the Influence of Literature on Science
On the Influence of Literature on Science Sarah Dillon (bio) Scholars of Literature and Science studies have always maintained that literature influences science as much as science influences literature. In Literature and Science, his 1963 contribution to the two cultures debate, Aldous Huxley asserts that "it goes without saying, between the Two Cultures the traffic of learning and understanding must flow in both directions—from science to liter…
Maggie Gee
It's a Question of Words, Therefore
This essay reads Michel Faber’s debut novel Under the Skin (2000) in the context of contemporary philosophical and literary critical debates about the ethical relation between human and nonhuman animals. It argues that Faber’s text engages with, but deconstructs, the traditional division of ‘no language, no subjectivity’ by a heretical act of renaming human beings as ‘vodsels,’ and by an extensive process of figurative transformation. The paper t…
Panel Participants
Reinscribing De Quincey's palimpsest
Reinscribing De Quincey's palimpsest
What AI researchers read
This paper presents the results of a pilot interview study investigating the leisure reading habits of 20 practising AI researchers based in the United Kingdom. The interview analysis yields six areas in which literature plays a role in the field of AI: research focus, career choice, community formation, science communication, ethical thinking, and modelling of sociotechnical futures. These categories are proposed as the basis of a systematic tax…
Futures of autonomous flight
It's a Question of Words, Therefore
This essay reads Michel Faber’s debut novel Under the Skin (2000) in the context of contemporary philosophical and literary critical debates about the ethical relation between human and nonhuman animals. It argues that Faber’s text engages with, but deconstructs, the traditional division of ‘no language, no subjectivity’ by a heretical act of renaming human beings as ‘vodsels,’ and by an extensive process of figurative transformation. The paper t…
Panel Participants
Reinscribing De Quincey's palimpsest
It's a Question of Words, Therefore
This essay reads Michel Faber’s debut novel Under the Skin (2000) in the context of contemporary philosophical and literary critical debates about the ethical relation between human and nonhuman animals. It argues that Faber’s text engages with, but deconstructs, the traditional division of ‘no language, no subjectivity’ by a heretical act of renaming human beings as ‘vodsels,’ and by an extensive process of figurative transformation. The paper t…
Maggie Gee
On the Influence of Literature on Science
On the Influence of Literature on Science Sarah Dillon (bio) Scholars of Literature and Science studies have always maintained that literature influences science as much as science influences literature. In Literature and Science, his 1963 contribution to the two cultures debate, Aldous Huxley asserts that "it goes without saying, between the Two Cultures the traffic of learning and understanding must flow in both directions—from science to liter…
AI Narratives
Storylistening
Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning. Dillon and Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other forms of evidence, including that from science. Focusing on the cognitive and the collective, Dillon and Craig show how stories offer alternative points of view, create and cohere collective identitie…
Futures of autonomous flight
What AI researchers read
This paper presents the results of a pilot interview study investigating the leisure reading habits of 20 practising AI researchers based in the United Kingdom. The interview analysis yields six areas in which literature plays a role in the field of AI: research focus, career choice, community formation, science communication, ethical thinking, and modelling of sociotechnical futures. These categories are proposed as the basis of a systematic tax…
Histories of artificial intelligence
Like the polar bear beleaguered by global warming, artificial intelligence (AI) serves as the charismatic megafauna of an entangled set of local and global histories of science, technology and economics. This Themes issue develops a new perspective on AI that moves beyond conventional origin myths – AI was invented at Dartmouth in the summer of 1956, or by Alan Turing in 1950 – and reframes contemporary critique by establishing plural genealogies…
The BS meter
What can we learn about language from studying how it is used by ChatGPT and other large language model (LLM)-based chatbots? In this paper, we analyse the distinctive character of language generated by ChatGPT, in relation to questions raised by natural language processing pioneer, and student of Wittgenstein, Margaret Masterman. Following frequent complaints that LLM-based chatbots produce “bullshit,” in the sense of Frankfurt’s popular monogra…
Co‐Producing Training Resources to Improve Healthcare Experiences for Young Women and Reduce Gendered Health Inequalities
Service user involvement in the education of allied healthcare professionals in Ireland
Cancer clinical trial recruitment for patients from rural areas
BACKGROUND: This work will explore the literature on recruiting patients from rural and remote areas to cancer clinical trials. By examining the definitions employed, identifying levers and barriers to recruitment, and describing initiatives to promote recruitment, we seek to inform the development of future trials with these populations. METHODS: A scoping review of primary research published since 2004 relating to the recruitment of patients fr…
Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)