Maybe universities could also learn from this?

Something for @facct.bsky.social 2027?

Anyway, my theory - FWIW - is that lots of the experienced and senior people who are hooked on LLMs are actually having a midlife crisis, and that spending money on Claude is cheaper than buying a Lambo buttondown.com/justenoughin...

This is poetry

“Amazon, Walmart, Cisco, Uber and Meta are among early adopters that have introduced caps, discouraged wasteful use or pushed employees to cheaper models in a bid to keep AI spending under control.”

"Cars used to kill children, now we want a shot" (also the cars still kill children)

Corporate needs you to find the difference between AI companies and social media companies...

Every staff update in every university right now: 1. We are excited to announce a strategic investment of eleventeen squillion pounds in ACRONYM, a new AI-powered centre for the development of strategic acronyms. 2. Staff have until Friday to apply for enhanced Voluntary Death.

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

You can either join your union, go to the meeting, and get in the fight, or you can watch them kill higher education in the US. This will not pass. There will not be a natural reset. You fight or die.

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

EXC: Shock at Edinburgh Medical School as more than a dozen courses are to be cut, sparking fears of redundancies. One course that generated £500k in annual profit is being shut down. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2613266...

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

Is this art?

Good piece, brief and to the point from @drjogrady.bsky.social Gen Sec of UCU: “We are calling for direct government intervention before the crisis spirals further.” Intervention is cheaper than most think, and pound for pound excellent investment in our future economic prosperity.

"People everywhere are picking up the mantle of collective resistance....Educators and students are pressuring their institutions. Victims and their families are suing. Tech employees themselves are campaigning. Group chats for more organizing abound. People are marching." - @karenhao.bsky.social

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Only one week until the first virtual assembly of our Critical AI Network “How do we break something that is already broken?”. Three days of quick-fire presentations + keynotes on AI in/as Education, AI in/as Law, Governance & Politics, The Ecology of AI/AI & the Environment cpct.uk/2026/05/09/p...

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

having the opportunity to feign surprise and drop this line would give me a kind of high no drug could reproduce

In their defense, there's a lot of duplication of effort when every other government team is _also_ ignoring all of the evidence

The silver lining here is that this government is so broadly awful and unpopular that hopefully AI will suffer by association

We're delighted to share that we've extended the application deadline for our next Cambridge Data School, Teaching and Learning Critically in an Age of Generative AI. Get your application in by 1 May 2026 to be in with a chance of joining our next cohort 💡 Apply: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41023/

if you are wondering "but what is it good for then and why are companies pushing it so hard" the answers are "it is good for centralizing power and rationalizing harm" and "because it is good for centralizing power and rationalizing harm"

The ceasefire was supposed to include Lebanon, but instead, Israel attacked Lebanon 100 times in 10 minutes and massacred hundreds of people under the tired and unsubstantiated guise of a war on terror. apnews.com/article/iran...

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

I can’t think of any historical equivalents to the universal glee here. It’s like Iraq striking a vuvuzela factory in the early 2000s

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

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Good news: not just one open job, but two! Both are postdocs in philosophy of science/ML working with my @technomoralfutures.bsky.social co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan on issues in ML scientific understanding and explanation. Ads for a 3 year post and 2 year post are linked below, apply by 20 April

Deeply grateful to the UK AI and Robotics research community for this Leadership Award. So many wonderful researchers were honoured with me tonight - my own award would not be possible without my amazing @braiduk.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social colleagues

If this destroys grammarly that would be fabulous

This is why AI "inspiration" - slop outputs fed into new chatbots - creates an near-immediate systemic collapse, and also why tech companies want to turn human creatives into little piggies that do nothing but feed the slop machine, because they *know* it's unique and valuable

Three cheers for the House of Lords. This far from the the first time in their modern history that they have functioned as a check on the tendency of governments to comply with the industry pressure.

"The task of AI education, then, is not merely to teach technical competence, but to cultivate the political imagination and collective capacities necessary to contest and reshape technological power," write Jan‐Philipp Siebold, Annemarie Witschas, and Rainer Mühlhoff.

I don’t think most academics realise that we’re way past the ‘AI concerns me’ phase and in the middle of a full scale apocalyptic war waged by tech corporations. We must fight for our lives and for everything we hold dear. AI should be exposed, shamed, and rejected in every facet of our profession.

surely we can teach the children how to ethically use this product designed for unethical use by unethical people

In case you missed it, the recording of 'Technomoral Conversations: What's the Story with AI? AI Narratives and Counter-Narratives' with @abeba.bsky.social @johnthornhill.bsky.social @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alex-taylor.bsky.social is available now! Watch the event recording 👇 edin.ac/4q8TXsZ

If you are in the UK please consider signing the open letter to the government about this here: weandai.org/updated-open...

"Is Claude really powerful? Yes, say the people who need that to be true!" Just the most basic failures of competent journalism on show here.

Check out our new op-ed! With @taniaduarte.bsky.social @markwong.bsky.social, @suoman.bsky.social, & @timdavies.org.uk. We argue that these collabs normalize close relationships w/Big-Tech, setting them up to be key actors in governance who provide tech solutions to important social ‘problems’.

I think part of this is academic-brain. We've disciplined ourselves into believing that refusal or simply identifying something as irredeemable are not respectable intellectual positions. Instead, the clever posture is to wishcast a scenario on to which we can project our own smart version of sthing

This was an excellent event, well done Dani and team! (and @aggillespie.bsky.social has been lured to Bluesky)

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I would say this findings shows women are more AI literate than men, because the majority of non-magical beings have no innate ability to "judge truthfulness"

Had a great time prepping for a Tech Refusal workshop today. Getting to talk to wonderful, smart people about important things is really the highlight of this job. Shoutouts to @ftollon.bsky.social @meenakshimani.bsky.social @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social @kimberleyparadis.bsky.social