"In Claude’s constitution, Anthropic says that if the company is contributing to Claude’s suffering, “we apologize,” which sounds nice but costs the company nothing; if Claude were to turn out to be conscious, the company would owe it something closer to reparations." The logi…
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Jathan Sadowski
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ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
papers.ssrn.com
Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic's Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care futurism.com
bloodinthemachine.com
‘Odd choices of words’: How an academic’s AI use was exposed by her peers smh.com.au
In Conversation with Jathan Sadowski: AI, Big Tech and the Politics of Tech eventbrite.com.au
453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy soundcloud.com
467. Industrial Policy by Other Means (ft. Matt Haugen, Jesse Goldenstein) | This Machine Kills patreon.com
465. Malcolm X1 Technologies | This Machine Kills patreon.com
AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It futurism.com
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I have a new article where I outline a materialist analysis of the machine learning value chain via three interrelated concepts that are all key for understanding this political economy: innovation realism, cheap data, and the perpetual value machine. Preprint here: papers.ssr…
The Mayo Clinic's AI assistant has serious privacy problems, an extremely high error rate, and a team that manipulated data to lie about the tool. After raising concerns, the research director and AI compliance lead was fired. The future is bright! futurism.com/health-medic...
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- A former Mayo Clinic AI compliance lead alleges its MAYA digital assistant had an error rate as high as 67 percent.
- The lawsuit claims MAYA staffers deleted unflattering test results and mischaracterized the tool's abilities.
- Plaintiff Traci Tamiko Eto says she filed ten whistleblower complaints before being pushed out in early 2025.
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“That’s why the students are booing, I think. They’re experiencing AI in realtime as a forecloser of futures; as the cruel new face of hyper-scaling capitalism, as the prime agent moving a world that’s become a deck stacked against them.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social really nails…
Well this is embarrassing! The Pro Vice Chancellor for Quality and Integrity at WSU gets caught using AI to write an op-ed in defense of how universities are embracing AI. And the piece is then retracted form inappropriate use of AI. www.smh.com.au/national/uni...
On October 28th in Melbourne, I'm going to be doing a public event at Northcote Library on AI and the Politics of Big Tech. It'll be a fun community event, free and accessible for everybody! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/in-convers...
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Since idea of everyday joes sharing in AI profits is in news now, I thought I'd share this thoughtful, well-informed and at-times hilarious analysis of OpenAI's 'industrial' policy approach from @edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com which pokes all the holes. As usual I…
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- This Machine Kills episode 453 examines OpenAI's April 2026 industrial policy report proposing a public wealth fund and a four-day work week.
- Critics at TechPolicy.Press called the document a 'policymercial,' noting OpenAI opposed California's SB1047 while now proposing similar safety measures.
- OpenAI's superalignment research team reportedly received only 1-2% of its promised compute before key figures Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever departed.
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In the new TMK, we're joined by folks from @cplusc.bsky.social to discuss how the US gov is engaging in industrial policy for AI in ways that are configured by (venture) capitalist development and prioritize anti-social infrastructure.
In the new TMK, we get into the growing market for humanoid robots. What are the financial incentives and social ideologies driving the creation of technologies designed to directly mimic humans? What makes these androids attractive—and doomed to fail as solutions for real pro…
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@jathansadowski.com had a good piece about this Tinkerbell economy futurism.com/ai-tinkerbell
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As an academic who does not use AI in my workflow for research and writing, it drives me crazy thinking that a reader might even wonder if AI is used in something with my name on it. We need an "organic" certification so people know that what they are reading is 100% human made.
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