Karen Gregory

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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Karen Gregory reposted
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…

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"Say hello to the new class of AI jobs: Some foundational jobs in AI have focused on gig-style work, especially on the human side of training AI models" www.businessinsider.com/new-ai-jobs-...

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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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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... "Workers who voted to join the union said they did so to raise pressure on Google to meet demands already made by other employees at the company, including that it commit not to develop technology 'whose primary purpose is to cause harm or i…

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Happy to organise this event with @jkom.bsky.social THE LABOUR THE LAW FORGOT. THE COMMODIFICATION OF EVERYONE’S COGNITIVE-RELATIONAL WORK IN THE AI ECONOMY www.de.ed.ac.uk/event/michel... cc @uoe-sps.bsky.social

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Karen Gregory reposted
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from @andrewrchow.bsky.social in TIME magazine: "'Everyone’s a Line On a Spreadsheet:' Inside Oracle’s Mass Layoffs and the Workers Fighting Back" #Technology #Work #TechWorkers #TechLabor #TechLayoffs #FutureofWork time.com/article/2026...

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