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."
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Charles Logan
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue at Northwestern University - Civics of Technology Board Member - Dad Life - he/him
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The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian theguardian.com
The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
Anthropic forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation \ Anthropic anthropic.com
Luddite Lab labor.dair-institute.org
Waiting for AGI | AI & SOCIETY | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com
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"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." - @…
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
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 …
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- The $200M partnership splits contributions between Anthropic's API credits and technical staff versus the Gates Foundation's direct grant funding.
- Multilingual datasets produced under the deal will be released as public goods, available to researchers and developers beyond the partnership.
- Target geographies are low- and middle-income countries, with specific literacy program focus on sub-Saharan Africa and India.
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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
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This is beautiful on so many levels. It names clearly and directly one of the insidious tactics that tech uses to evade effective regulation. It exemplifies a way in which humanistic scholarship provides critically important insight. >> link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Why did a reputable journal publish such a shoddy meta-analysis? Why did it rack up so many citations? Why did it get reported so widely? I'd guess that the answers to these questions all stem from the US's neoliberal allergy to public goods. 1/🧵 arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/i...
"Students boo because they know [AI] is bad. They boo because they know it's wrong – wrong ethically, wrong politically, wrong historically, wrong economically, wrong environmentally...And it's also untrue, all these pronouncements about technological inevitability," writes Au…
Recommended listening: @tommullaney.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com on the latest episode of @techwontsave.us to talk GenAI in K-12 education.
"Questioning media-driven visuals enables a deeper understanding of the socio-technical and environmental realities behind and within them...Critical visual frameworks that confront the real tensions and conflicts between emerging technologies and ecological collapse are neces…
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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