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Karen Gregory

134 trust researcher @karengregory.bsky.social · 7,462 followers
Soc of Work + Platform Labor | U of Edinburgh | Created MSc Digital Sociology | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society | Critical Data Studies @ EFI | https://workersobservatory.org
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Teaching Associate in the social and ethical study of AI: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/teachin...

Teaching Associate in AI and Society/Ethics | University of Cambridge cam.ac.uk
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  • Cambridge is recruiting a Teaching Associate in AI and Society/Ethics to support its MSt in AI Ethics and Society, based in the Faculty of Philosophy.
  • The role is 80% FTE on a fixed-term one-year contract paying £35,608 to £46,049 pro rata, with a start date of 1 September 2026.
  • Preferred specialisms include political economy of AI, policy studies, and anthropology or sociology of AI covering gender, race, anticolonial and disability perspectives.
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Great to see @mbarany.com here: leidendeclaration.ai

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics leidendeclaration.ai
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  • The Leiden Declaration, released June 2, 2026, warns AI threatens proof integrity, attribution, and peer review in mathematics.
  • Over 2,654 signatories including Fields Medal winner Terence Tao have endorsed the community-initiated declaration.
  • The International Mathematical Union backs the declaration, which makes separate recommendations to researchers, publishers, policymakers, and AI developers.
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maybe the massive job losses tech CEOs warned about weren't a prediction but a product pitch

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  • Sam Altman told CNBC the AI industry 'underestimated how much we're going to be able to keep people at the center of everything.'
  • An EY-Parthenon poll found CEOs expecting AI investments to cut headcount fell from roughly 46% in January 2025 to 20% by May 2026.
  • MIT economist David Autor said leaders 'may have realized it was simply bad business to say that your great new product will destroy the economy.'
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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social

"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…

AI as Social Technology knightcolumbia.org
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  • Farrell and Shalizi argue AI models are social technologies comparable to markets and bureaucracies, not autonomous intelligent agents.
  • All such systems generate lossy, incomplete, and uninvertible representations of reality, creating power effects that benefit some groups over others.
  • The social-technology framing shifts focus from AGI speculation to questions about power, lossiness, and who bears the cost of AI's simplifications.
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"A flood of sometimes conflicting analyses shows the yawning gap between what little is known about how AI is changing work..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social

🚨 Excellent opportunity for grassroot organisations: The €2 million Building Narrative Power funding and learning programme offers grants of up to €150,000 to develop and test narrative strategies around three areas: data centres, jobs and young people’s lives europeanaifund.o…

Call for proposals: New €2m Building Narrative Power funding and learning programme - European AI & Society Fund europeanaifund.org View on Bluesky →
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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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