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Karen Gregory

134 trust researcher @karengregory.bsky.social · 7,462 followers
Culture, work & education AI research
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Researcher with public evidence across Culture, work & education, AI research.

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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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"It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high-stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender theguardian.com
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  • A US special operations analyst used a chatbot to assess intel on a Chinese ship, and the AI falsely claimed it carried nuclear weapon components.
  • Military planes were in the air and personnel were preparing to board before officials caught the hallucination and stood down, per CNN sources.
  • Gebru and Bender argue the real AI risk is error-prone deployment in high-stakes settings today, not speculative superintelligence.
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At least we get plenty of irony these days. #AIEthics Very revealing quote: “I felt no joy in the work or that I was contributing to society in any way.” www.404media.co/people-train...

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI 404media.co
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  • Contractors hired to rate ChatGPT responses are being fired for using AI tools including LLMs, GPTZero, Grammarly, and AI translation services.
  • OpenAI's Project Lily has hundreds of contractors read real user prompts and rate responses for sycophancy or anthropomorphizing.
  • Reviewers flag repetitive words, AI-style punctuation like em dashes, and unusually fast completion as tells for AI use.
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404 Media @404media.co

Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.

Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month 404media.co
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  • Accenture is centrally funding only $29 a month per employee on Claude, effective October 1, 2026, with overages charged to a specific project budget code.
  • Some employees had been spending up to $1,000 a month on Claude Code before the cap, with internal messages showing a scramble for workarounds.
  • Internal data pins heavy token use to PDF-to-slide conversions, not engineering, per client group lead Stuart Henderson and agentic AI lead Justice Kwak.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/a...

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  • Three New York stand-ups, Olga Namer, Olivia Carter and Natalie Cuomo, say AI avatar accounts are reposting their routines verbatim on Instagram.
  • Namer's joke drew about 520,000 views on her own post; an AI copy fronted by a different face reached nearly eight million.
  • The accounts route attention to paid OnlyFans and Fanvue pages, and often block the comedians whose material they lift.
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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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It’s something of a curse to be able to parse headlines in 2026.

AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles | Fortune fortune.com
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  • Ray Kurzweil is joining Palo Alto brain-computer interface startup Subsense as product and vision advisor.
  • Subsense has raised $27 million for a nonsurgical BCI that delivers charged nanoparticles intranasally and controls them with a magnetic-coil cap.
  • The company is still in preclinical work running mouse experiments, contrasting with Neuralink's surgical electrode implants.
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UK to deploy facial recognition in biggest-ever immigration crackdown theguardian.com
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  • The Home Office is preparing to deploy live facial recognition cameras at transport hubs and public events to identify visa overstayers and people subject to removal orders.
  • Immigration enforcement ran three facial recognition trials at Holyhead port in north Wales between November 2025 and February 2026, and the project has moved into a formal delivery phase.
  • Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has doubled the immigration enforcement budget and increased the workforce by 60% to enable tens of thousands more raids, arrests and deportations.
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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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Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework For Years. Then A.I. Arrived. Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/t...

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Statements like "44% of businesses surveyed already use AI" are basically meaningless. What is AI?

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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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