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Researcher with public evidence across Culture, work & education, AI research.
I'm in the group that has experienced wage contraction due to AI adoption by large corporations. "As the sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says, AI has merged regressive politics with unchecked economic power under the guise of technological innovation."
Great to see @mbarany.com here: leidendeclaration.ai
“The idea of deskilling implies that someone possessed an ability and then lost it. Here, the danger is not just deskilling but never-skilling. Although a doctor who has forgotten how to reason is recoverable, one who never learned how may not be.”
Teaching Associate in the social and ethical study of AI: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/teachin...
We hope to support unions, labor organizations, and worker organizers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. Visit labor.dair-institute.org for more information and to get in touch.
“New agentic capabilities include asking Maps to order you food while considering contextual information like specific dietary needs, location, and places you’ve saved.”
maybe the massive job losses tech CEOs warned about weren't a prediction but a product pitch
Data collectives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-data-collectives-mozilla/
"AI is better understood through past history & current engagement with its actual consequences for contemporary human society than guesses about how it might work magic. More grounded approaches to AI keep on getting dragged back into irresolvable fights"about AGI knightcolum…
The kids are all right. Kids are doing what adults have failed to do. There are some great ideas here on how school should deal with AI. Well worth a read. www.npr.org/2026/07/30/n...
Huh. 35% of CS10 students flunked? www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
Nowhere does this explore whether the lower than expected uptake of AI might reflect: 1) the expectations were based on over-hyped, booster-ish expectations; 2) use of AI is recognised by workers/businesses as problematic in some respects (for example, hallucinations increase …
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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