Dan Greene

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🚨🚨🚨🚨 VICTORY! Following months of negotiations between @pen-guild.bsky.social leadership, WBNG, and POLITICO management, the company has agreed to shut down both AI products at the heart of last November’s landmark arbitration ruling! wbng.org/2026/05/22/p...

VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild wbng.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Politico's union contract required 60-day advance notice before AI deployment, a clause that became the enforceable legal lever.
  • Both shut-down tools produced documented factual errors in published, branded Politico content.
  • NewsGuild-CWA calls this the first successful major labor arbitration over AI deployment in a U.S. newsroom.
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I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks o…

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Recent commentary

Really thought "AI" would replace "fake news" and "polarization" but unfortunately it appears "chatbots to reduce misinformation and polarization" is a good way to get grant money

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When meta says they're laying off 8000 people because of "ai" they mean "we hired too many people in 2021 but that's kind of embarrassing and we shouldn't talk about the past"

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My Facebook feed (I know I know but local politics) is now about 50% ai-generated group pages with ai-generated anti-data-center protest art and hundreds of real commenters who believe (?) it's real

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We really gotta watch out for yellow peril tech policy. It distorts your whole world view. AI is an authoritarian nightmare in the US too--witness ICE's face scans. And Chinese AI implementation is, if anything, more focused on business applications than the US where its frontier models or bust

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Really worried that ai is gonna make Improv more popular as an alternative

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