Charles Logan

Today in AI in education is cop shit: "BusPatrol’s cameras would take a photo of each car a bus drives past, record the car’s license plate and GPS location, and then law enforcement can query that data."

‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access 404media.co

"People everywhere are picking up the mantle of collective resistance....Educators and students are pressuring their institutions. Victims and their families are suing. Tech employees themselves are campaigning. Group chats for more organizing abound. People are marching." - @…

The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian theguardian.com

What emerges from this latest look at Alpha School is detail after detail revealing just how much the company’s leadership and investors absolutely despise children, their families, and education.

Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School wired.com

"xAI is selling $15 billion per year in compute at its Memphis campuses to Anthropic, another company planning a blockbuster IPO in the coming months. 'People don’t matter to SpaceX, or Anthropic, or whoever is building these data centers,’ [Representative] Pearson says.”

People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO wired.com

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

The AI Resist List airesistlist.org

"'To be using AI without a thought about the problems that it causes for people around the world, and the water and electricity it’s consuming,' [16-year-old] Owens says, 'feels like [his peers are] failing an open-book test with the answers being screamed at them.’”

Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool wired.com

Meta still undefeated in its mission to be the most misanthropic company in human history. ht: @aicaution.ca

Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination | TechCrunch techcrunch.com

Solidarity with these students who want no part in this experiment: "A small but vocal minority of Estonian students say they refuse to use AI on moral grounds, citing issues such as water consumption by data centers or political complaints about U.S. tech companies, teachers …

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B. F. Skinner tried to test his teaching machines on Black children in Harlem to prove the product's profitability. Now this: "The school district serves roughly 1,300 students, including 32 percent who identify as American Indian or Alaska Native and 79 percent who are econom…

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher nysfocus.com

I think education researchers considering applying for these funds must be clear-eyed about Anthropic and the company's decision to partner with Elon Musk's xAI for its compute power at Colossus 1, the same Colossus 1 that's deepening environmental racism by poisoning the air …

Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation \ Anthropic anthropic.com

I appreciate that the letter, signed by 29 of 51 city council members, called for ongoing "'education on the multiple risks in employing the technology’”, an approach that reinforces teaching about and against AI technologies before (if ever) teaching with them.

Majority of City Council Members Urge Mamdani to Pause A.I. in Schools nytimes.com

Important life update! Starting this fall, I'm going to be joining the State University of New York as a research assistant professor at Binghamton University. I will be leading a new research stream on AI and Society as part of Binghamton University’s First-Year Research Immersion Program.

TBH would love to see booing AI boosters spread to other contexts beyond graduation. Attending a professional development session led by some dude spewing AI hype? BOOOOOO. Enjoying a serene late spring/early summer family BBQ and Cousin Chad starts sharing his Claude life hacks? BOOOO, Chad, BOOOOO

Anybody have syllabus language about banning pervert glasses and other AI wearables that they want to share?

Every day is a good day to teach the histories and political economies of ed-tech, but today’s bid from Anthropic to capture K-12 teachers and news of a failed crypto/sex robot company selling a robot to a high school serving a large population of Indigenous youth really emphasizes the urgency.

This Independence Day, I’m excited to announce the launch of my revolutionary AI-powered learning platform - Uncle Scam - that uses the latest in total data surveillance technologies plus bonus analytics to both personalize and democratize education like nothing you’ve ever seen! 🇺🇸🎆🇺🇸🎆🇺🇸

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there…unless you’re offloading your caregiving and storytelling to a chatbot or Amazon Echo or some other relationship-eroding technology, in which case, WTAF, my dude.

Heard about a new parenting book just now via an email from our local children's museum. Book discusses raising kids in the age of AI and it’s blurbed by Eric Schmidt, Angela Duckworth, and Jonathan Haidt, which, I don’t know, doesn’t seem like a good sign - but I’m sure they'll help sell copies!

Oh hey excited to attend my first 4S to present, “Parents, Caregivers, and a Growing Resistance to TechnoPower in Schools" with @alliethrall.bsky.social and “Refusing AI Hype in an Undergraduate Classroom: Reflections on AI, Equity, and Public Education" with Sepehr Vakil. See you in Toronto 🍁

Zines ftw: "We read AI infrastructure as haunted by these histories that have never been fully reckoned with. How the past persists in the present, how spectacular promises can reek of rot, how prosperity is hoarded, how violence repeatedly returns in a new guise, and how we live to tell the tale."