The Bulletin made a short video presentation to accompany the article. It's great especially if you want to see me gesticulating wildly at every word I say (My parents used to call me Magnus Pyke when I was a child, and that clearly hasn't gone away) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn8_...

Our hidden gem of the week details how tech doesn’t just “augment” work; it reshapes power, squeezing workers while boosting employer control. By @aihathing.bsky.social & @cariatida.bsky.social in @datasociety.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3EcmDOs

A decade ago I was like “I can’t help workers organize if I don’t understand tech” and read lots of data and society research to teach myself about it. Then I met the good people there and they helped even more. Today, I am humbled and honored to join the board. What a life!

In Voxeurop, Hubert Guillaud looks at the findings of @aihathing.bsky.social & @cariatida.bsky.social's recent primer on generative AI and labor. "AI means that workers are being reduced to the sum of their data,” he writes. voxeurop.eu/en/artificia...

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The MAGA-version of Uber has arrived: no insurance or vetting for drivers, a race-to-the-bottom for fares, no taxes paid, and $100m in fines. “Empower is trying to out-Uber Uber,” said Katie Wells, a labor expert and a co-author of the book “Disrupting D.C." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/t...

@aihathing.bsky.social & @cariatida.bsky.social have a new @datasociety.bsky.social must-read! "The labor impact of genAI spans a vast landscape of workforces, processes & geographies, even as AI co.s [say] that genAI merely enhances efficiency & automates drudgery" datasociety.net/library/gene...

Excited to share new primer written w/ @aihathing.bsky.social on genAI & labor: genAI doesn't exist outside of industries' economic conditions, inequalities & power dynamics, and often are extensions of banal extractive trajectories we're already well familiar with. datasociety.net/library/gene...

We spent months digging into the booming AI influencer industry. People are brazenly stealing content from human models and adult content creators and Instagram does not give a damn www.404media.co/inside-the-b...

Awful. OpenAI (and other AI cos) are making a hard push for getting AI into K-12 schools, which they see as a burgeoning market. Most teachers I've spoken to, meanwhile, say AI is terrible. Outside of computer class, there should be no gen AI in K12 schools, period. techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/o...

Infinite Growth Forever: global-tetrahedron.com

Outsourcing decision making to AI isn’t much better than flipping a coin or throwing dice, Judith Donath tells @kashhill.bsky.social. “At some point there was a human source for the ideas there. But it’s been turned into chum.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...