Mostafa Abdou is a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University’s Neuroscience Institute, exploring the intersections of language, psychiatry, and artificial intelligence.
Broadly, he is interested in the relationship between social transformations and technology. At the moment, his research situates artefacts such as large language models within broader socio-technical and historical contexts, tracing their development from early information theory to today’s platform economies, and examining how claims of interpretability, transparency, and objectivity are constructed and circulated in policy and public discourse. He is co-founder of Disjunctions, a magazine covering digital technologies and societal change with a focus on the Global South, and writes on labor, automation, and political economy.