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Nathan Schneider

130 trust commentator @ntnsndr.in · 6,339 followers

Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.

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A lot more opportunities for taboos in this gem: futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire futurism.com

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A lawyer quit a legal tech startup after her boss mandated AI consultation before every meeting and made structural decisions solely from ChatGPT.
Workers described an obligatory multi-hundred-page document called 'the Bible' that employees were required to feed into ChatGPT for guidance.
A SaaS sales strategist warned AI 'will spit out whatever you want it to spit out,' letting managers dress confirmation bias as analysis.

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I'm already using this post on AI taboos as a way to respond to slop emails: nathanschneider.info/2026/06/a-ca...

A case for AI taboos – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider nathanschneider.info

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A colleague just pointed me to the University of Edinburgh's AI infrastructure—open source, ecologically aware, privacy protecting: information-services.ed.ac.uk/computing/co... A great starting point for the university AI approach I've been calling for: nathanschneider.info/2…

An inference cooperative for academic AI – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider nathanschneider.info

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Three questions on AI for you, from Pope Leo: https://nathanschneider.info/2026/06/three-questions-on-ai-for-you-from-pope-leo/

Three questions on AI for you, from Pope Leo – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider nathanschneider.info

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Just out in The Conversation, I explore how Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical could reshape the AI industry, akin to what his predecessor did in the Gilded Age: https://theconversation.com/pope-leo-xiv-compares-ai-to-the-industrial-revolution-as-new-alternatives-to-big-ai-firms-tak…

Pope Leo XIV compares AI to the Industrial Revolution – as new alternatives to big AI firms take shape theconversation.com

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"Students can experience AI models as not just something someone else does for you but something that can happen in your own community": https://nathanschneider.info/2026/05/a-defunct-email-service-as-a-template-for-campus-ai/

A defunct email service as a template for campus AI – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider nathanschneider.info

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Academics: would you feel better about a campus AI contract if it went to a nonprofit co-op, controlled by universities, that runs inference with diverse models on renewable energy and follows university-governed data protection? An OCLC for AI?

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After a meeting with largely right-leaning religious thinkers on AI, I am getting more of a sense of how broad and deep the movement against corporate AI is poised to be.

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Okay, just drafted encyclical take #1: About how encyclicals can change industries, based on how the earlier Leo's Rerum Novarum helped establish labor rights and social democracy. Now this Leo is coming for AI, and he's not alone.

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