Dwayne Monroe

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Critic with public evidence across Culture, work & education, Safety & security.

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Microsoft, as an organization, has mastered the, well, 'art' of massaging executive egos. This is one of the sources of its power and why C-suite denizens, Uni admins are many others roll over. Note the phrase, 'frontier firm' tailored for the biz class: www.microsoft.com/en-u…

Journey to the Frontier Firm microsoft.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index attributes 67% of AI impact to organizational factors and 32% to individual mindset, from a 20,000-worker survey across 10 markets.
  • BNY has 150 'digital employees' on its org chart as autonomous agents with employee IDs; Kantar rolled Microsoft 365 Copilot to its 20,000 staff.
  • Active agent use in Microsoft 365 grew 15x year over year, and the Frontier Firm AI Initiative at Harvard Business School launched with a 14-company inaugural class.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 14 ↻ 2 ↩ 1 · 2 from the directory shared this · 53d ago
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I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society broadly too. "Models" doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Thanks @carvalhais.org for inviti…

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The website began with this post which was a response to my observation that, in left circles (as in the general population) there was (is) a tendency to accept industry propaganda without question and use it as the point of critique: monroelab.com/2021/09/19/a...

Attack Mannequins: AI as Propaganda monroelab.com
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Exactly. A marketing group but also, even more critically, a *lobbying* group. The primary challenge faced by everyone who opposes the waste of resources and lives by the capitalist pursuit of 'AI' is a power deficit. Control AI shapes elite perceptions. Shown here: controlai.…

About Us | ControlAI controlai.org
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Because of this assault on education for tech industry profit objectives (actually, super profits, as I explore in the link below) and an assault on the Earth via data center proliferation, my allegiance is with calls for total bans on the use of ‘AI’ in education. monroelab.c…

ChatGPT: Super Rentier monroelab.com
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Recent commentary

Please, stop using the media and tech industry phrase, 'AI boom' (as in 'AI boom increases memory prices'). There is no 'boom' there is an economic and ideological total war being waged against us by a dying system that is producing material consequences. An imposition, not a boom.

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Instead of saying 'AI' did this or 'AI' wants that (not only anthropomorphic but a diversion) I suggest we always name companies, products, customers uses and infrastructure. What, precisely is Microsoft, Google, Amazon selling? Who is buying and why? What are the angles?

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This week, there’s been a lot of chatter here (and doubtless elsewhere, ideas, and apparently social media trends, are hegemonic) about so-called ‘AI’ in education. Specifically: should students be taught ‘AI’ to be ready for.. well, there you have it; ready for what, exactly?

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