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Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute
Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...
What a day for AI resistance resources! 1) The AI Resist List from @karenhao.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at airesistlist.org 2) The Luddite Lab from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at labor.dair-institute.org
Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org
THIS WEDNESDAY: join @dairinstitute.bsky.social as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library. www.eventbri…
We are also releasing a new research primer, "Myths about Generative AI, Productivity, and Labor Displacement", which discusses five common myths around generative AI at work. This primer will be the first of many. labor.dair-institute.org/primers
California-based artists and creatives, the California government is asking for public input on AI's impact on our work. Please fill out this survey, it'll just take a few minutes: join.engaged.ca.gov/en/projects/...
“Nonfiction publishing is uniquely vulnerable to AI because the industry has long neglected to do anything to ensure the books it publishes are factually accurate. ‘Ppl outside of the industry don’t understand that, contractually, publishers are not obligated to fact-check.’”
Okay yes but it also still says that it’s okay to use AI for information seeking which is a well-documented way to step on a rake in this field. Behold! www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...
Joined @majorityreport.bsky.social yesterday to talk about The AI Con, the inevitability narrative of "AI" that exists on the Left, and Kevin O'Leary massive data center projects in Utah. majorityreportradio.com/2026/05/14/t...
Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)
This is an absolutely hilarious coming from an Uber exec. No ROI on AI tools, you say?? Hrm!
Attending two more graduation ceremonies this week. Let's see if we can get the students to boo at every mention of AI
Well I went to a graduation tonight and they still used an AI voice
Tried to get an AI Slop chant going during the Adobe ad but it did not take #Valks
The Stop AI people are like the Spartacist League of the anti-AI people, except maybe funded by shady crypto shit