AI deskilling AKA sklopification www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Who's Who of AI
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
What they're sharing
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good nature.com
Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection arxiv.org
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It. nytimes.com
Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly the-independent.com
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Access Now - Joint statement on AI in warfare accessnow.org
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Preliminary Report | Independent International Scientific Panel on AI un.org
The AI Question: A Movement Debate streamyard.com
AI Commons: nourishing alternatives to Big Tech monoculture — Coding Rights codingrights.org
Articles & links
Sasha Costanza-Chock reposted
Here is work showing some of this effect. It is important, however, to see the form that this takes ‘in the wild’ in terms of the erasure of actual women-led scholarship in LLMs by multiple modalities, so I intend to run some bibliometrics myself and put the results out. arxiv…
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Bernie Sanders is introducing legislation for a sovereign wealth fund, with the public owning half of all big AI companies: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...
Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com
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- The AI industry has spent roughly $1.4 trillion against $613 billion in revenue, leaving almost every major player still in the red.
- Amazon leads all spenders at $313 billion invested; NVIDIA is the sole major AI player currently in the black, profiting from hardware.
- The site's anonymous creator predicts clarity on AI viability by 2030 and notes Anthropic recently approached its first profitable quarter.
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AI resist list just launched! AIresistlist.org
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- Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
- The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
- Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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Sasha Costanza-Chock reposted
Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires. "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." www.the-independent.com/t…
Sasha Costanza-Chock reposted
7amleh has joined a coalition calling on states and technology companies to halt the use and provision of AI systems for military targeting and kill chains. 📄 Read the full statement: www.accessnow.org/press-releas...
Simple ways to reduce "AI" (LLM) use: Install the Wikipedia app! play.google.com/store/apps/d... Way better for topic summaries (honestly, LLM topic summaries are basically watered-down, less accurate, plagiarized, sourceless wikipedia entries)
The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI has released a preliminary report, "Evidence-based assessment of opportunities, risks and impacts of AI." www.un.org/independent-...
The AI Question: A movement debate. Rebroadcasting this Thursday, May 28, 7pm ET streamyard.com/watch/SKsxNh... @mediajustice.bsky.social @conmijente.bsky.social #TakeBackTech
In our imaginations of a liberatory future? codingrights.org/en/library-i...
Their own posts
Recent commentary
The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.
Talking with public planners about how residents use AI as mansplaining machines to produce civic slop
Claude, write an essay on "AI is dangerous bullshit"
Come for the cute animal vids, stay for the AI industry critique Or vice versa
Small Language Models & Cooperative Inference Provision
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In Sasha Costanza-Chock's orbit
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