RECENT
09/2025: Accepted abstract “Generative AI in academia: moving beyond mistrust and panic” at Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Meeting 2025
06/2025: Accepted paper “Ethics and Persuasion in Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback: A Procedural Rhetorical Approach” at IEEE ETHICS 2025. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09576
06/2025: Accepted paper “Student Perceptions of “Tech Stewardship”” in Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA ACEG). (Forthcoming)
05/2025: Invited lecture "Ideas and Challenges in Generative AI” at Technical University Berlin ADDTRUTH Workshop on Manipulation Recognition and Trust Literacy.
05/2025: Roundtable contributor Critique in, for, with, and of Responsible Innovation at STS Graz 2025.
04/2025: Invited seminar “Responsibly Anticipating the Impacts of Engineering and Technology” at Purdue University School of Engineering Education.
04/2025: Invited workshop “Engineering Communication as if Audience Matters” at New York Institute of Technology Writing Program Speaker Series.
ABOUT
Alexi Orchard is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Technology and Digital Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is also an Affiliate of the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society.
Her teaching specialties include technology and engineering ethics, responsible innovation, critical and speculative design, and technical writing and communication. Her related research has been published by the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, and Journal of Responsible Innovation.
From 2022 to 2024, she managed the Critical Media Lab at the University of Waterloo, a cross-disciplinary digital design facility funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. She is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and a Book Review Editor for PUBLIC Journal.
In 2024, Dr. Orchard was an Alumni Gold Medal Finalist for outstanding academic achievement in her PhD dissertation, “Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for Ethical Engineering and Responsible Innovation,” at the University of Waterloo.