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Karen Gregory

134 trust researcher @karengregory.bsky.social · 7,462 followers
Culture, work & education AI research
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Researcher with public evidence across Culture, work & education, AI research.

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Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | Critical Data Studies @ EFI | https://workersobservatory.org
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"It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high-stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender theguardian.com
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  • A US special operations analyst used a chatbot to assess intel on a Chinese ship, and the AI falsely claimed it carried nuclear weapon components.
  • Military planes were in the air and personnel were preparing to board before officials caught the hallucination and stood down, per CNN sources.
  • Gebru and Bender argue the real AI risk is error-prone deployment in high-stakes settings today, not speculative superintelligence.
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At least we get plenty of irony these days. #AIEthics Very revealing quote: “I felt no joy in the work or that I was contributing to society in any way.” www.404media.co/people-train...

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI 404media.co
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  • Contractors hired to rate ChatGPT responses are being fired for using AI tools including LLMs, GPTZero, Grammarly, and AI translation services.
  • OpenAI's Project Lily has hundreds of contractors read real user prompts and rate responses for sycophancy or anthropomorphizing.
  • Reviewers flag repetitive words, AI-style punctuation like em dashes, and unusually fast completion as tells for AI use.
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Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.

Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month 404media.co
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  • Effective October 1, Accenture centrally funds only $29 per month per employee for Claude, with any overage charged to a specific project or team.
  • Some employees reported spending $500 to $1,000 a month on Claude Code before the cap; at least one worker's access was revoked outright.
  • Premium plans come with $250 in weekly token usage, but many Accenture staff are not on them and are scrambling to upgrade.
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Great to see @mbarany.com here: leidendeclaration.ai

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics leidendeclaration.ai
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  • The Leiden Declaration, released June 2, 2026, warns AI threatens proof integrity, attribution, and peer review in mathematics.
  • Over 2,654 signatories including Fields Medal winner Terence Tao have endorsed the community-initiated declaration.
  • The International Mathematical Union backs the declaration, which makes separate recommendations to researchers, publishers, policymakers, and AI developers.
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It’s something of a curse to be able to parse headlines in 2026.

AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles | Fortune fortune.com
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  • Ray Kurzweil is joining Palo Alto brain-computer interface startup Subsense as product and vision advisor.
  • Subsense has raised $27 million for a nonsurgical BCI that delivers charged nanoparticles intranasally and controls them with a magnetic-coil cap.
  • The company is still in preclinical work running mouse experiments, contrasting with Neuralink's surgical electrode implants.
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Teaching Associate in the social and ethical study of AI: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/teachin...

Teaching Associate in AI and Society/Ethics | University of Cambridge cam.ac.uk
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  • Cambridge is recruiting a Teaching Associate in AI and Society/Ethics to support its MSt in AI Ethics and Society, based in the Faculty of Philosophy.
  • The role is 80% FTE on a fixed-term one-year contract paying £35,608 to £46,049 pro rata, with a start date of 1 September 2026.
  • Preferred specialisms include political economy of AI, policy studies, and anthropology or sociology of AI covering gender, race, anticolonial and disability perspectives.
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Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework For Years. Then A.I. Arrived. Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/t...

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"Tech companies have built some of their most powerful tools on datasets handled by precarious workers, including refugees, in low-income countries." www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

‘Someone else will do it for less’: refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay theguardian.com
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  • The International Trade Centre estimates transcription, data-entry, translation and web-research jobs for Kenyan refugees have declined by about 50% since 2022.
  • RWS-owned platform AOP Connect pays contributors through discretionary 'rewards' of up to $500 from a shared pool of $9,000, with no guaranteed wages.
  • Scale AI's subsidiary Remotasks closed Kenya operations in 2024, cutting a 500–1,000 shilling ($3–$6) daily pay band for annotators.
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Statements like "44% of businesses surveyed already use AI" are basically meaningless. What is AI?

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Trying to understand how a ban on social media sits in Labour gov vision of AI as primary economic driver and the current university crisis. Are we educating for digital lives or no? If no, maybe will want those local unis?

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