On scorching days like today, NYC (& most of the US) has no strict rules requiring employers to protect workers from heat (drinking water, rest breaks). States won't act? They should get outta the way & let cities keep ppl safe. My latest in @citylimitsnews.bsky.social citylimits.org/opinion-stat...

‘Uber for Nursing Part II’ featured in the @theguardian.com. The future of the care economy could offer little of the stability and safeguards that workers and patients have fought so hard to win if gig nursing platforms get to set the rules.

“She’s holding her 5-month-old and wearing a T-shirt featuring a skull emblazoned with the number 335—the local of her former union, @nteu335.bsky.social. ‘The public is so far ahead. On issues like data centers or abolishing ICE, Congress has yet to catch up.’” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

New from @consumerreports.org: Uber & Lyft customers see different prices for the same rides at the same time. AI Now’s @katiejwells.bsky.social contributed to the investigation, which also found evidence of deceptive algorithmic "discounts." Read it: www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...

If even nurses can be made gig workers, who else will be in their crosshairs? @katiejwells.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com how technology doesn’t have to be used against workers, but that’s precisely how it’s being implemented. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/332_...

A strikethrough price can look like a discount. But Uber says, um, it's not? Bravo @bmorons.bsky.social on showing just what participatory action research can do in the era of algorithmic pricing.

Join our final data center training on June 24th at 1pm ET. We’ll outline how Big Tech is driving the current nuclear energy buildout to power AI, in lockstep with gov undermining of nuclear regulation - and explore alternative policy to counter this agenda: bit.ly/policy-in-practice-training-series

“What we saw was that doctors lost the autonomy to decide if a patient is very seriously ill."

"surveillance pricing should NOT be understood as a stand-alone technology." 🔥 plus link to a German study on what algorithmic pricing does to gas stations: +38% in profit margins.

Excited to finally have @katiejwells.bsky.social on the podcast, especially to discuss such an important issue. We can’t let the gig work model makes its way into healthcare, and degrade not just working conditions, but patient care along with it.

The gig economy is moving into healthcare and trying to make nurses bid on shifts through apps. @katiejwells.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to dig into the threat gig work poses for patients and hospital workers alike. There are already horror stories. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/332_...

Final DC fundraising reports are in: Total DC donors: 🟣 Janeese Lewis George: 6,542 🔴 Kenyan McDuffie: 3,617 Total raised with matching funds: 🟣 Janeese: $3.8 million 🔴 McDuffie: $3.5 million Janeese has more DC donors, while McDuffie raised more 💰 from non-DC donors has higher average donations.

a candidate explicitly running on sewer socialism in not only a major US city but its capital. what an era

Oops! Looks like the Arkansas National Guard deleted the video we shared yesterday where they treated a DC and Free DC flag like souvenirs of a conquering army. DC deserves dignity and respect — not insulting behavior like this from soldiers here to satisfy Trump’s disgusting and deranged desires.

Dr. @katiejwells.bsky.social testified before the House Workforce Protections Subcommittee. As healthcare becomes a major frontier for gig-based work, she highlighted how gig nursing platforms are targeting policymakers with legislation that upends worker protections & exposes patients to risks.

Anthropoic founder: “How will we ensure the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this.” @bcmerchant.bsky.social: “They're called taxes. And just because AI companies don't really like that idea, they don't like the concept of being taxed, doesn't mean they don't exist.”

Focus groups must have shown the NDP had a winner here.

In @time.com, Sarita Gupta argues that concentrated wealth and corporate power create the conditions for democratic erosion, especially as AI reshapes work and economies, highlighting research from AI Now Healthcare Fellow Katie Wells on gig nursing platforms. Read it here: shorturl.at/EYAv3

many of the faculty that have been fired were critics of the administration - a chilling and shameful episode we should be following, especially those of us in higher ed

New joint publication by @citizenlab.ca + @cancivlib.bsky.social! In which @kate-ro.bsky.social & I join forces w/ Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca to explain the federal govt's many... "(Un)forced Errors: Analysis of Proposed Surveillance Law Expansion under Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access" 🧵1/x

"By 1956, the 4 largest beef packers, including former Beef Trust members, had just 30 percent of the market. That all began to change in the 1980s, when the federally blessed BUYOUT BOOM put big mergers back on the table; they haven’t stopped." 🔥

"For workers around the world, and increasingly in the US, this kind of AI gig work may be accepted under economic pressure and relied on as a means to live—teach the robot how to cook tonight so you can put food on the table tomorrow." www.wired.com/story/househ...

“Big Tech-like injection into grocery store operations should be cause for alarm.” Senior Fellow @katiejwells.bsky.social spoke to @civileats.com about surveillance pricing and price discrimination in grocery stores. Read more: civileats.com/2026/05/19/u...

things are so awful that the mass shooting murder at the Islamic Center is already not even front-page news.The security guard was a hero and lost his life to protect the children at the center. this country is in freefall

You’ve probably seen the many headlines predicting who might lose jobs due to AI. But maybe you haven’t had a chance to dig into the research behind these headlines. We put together a brief on common methodologies used so folks have some tools to more critically engage: techequity.us/white-collar...

"The lawsuit also alleges Dashers could see tip amounts and whether orders were cash payments, making some drivers less likely to accept certain deliveries."

Grateful to get to lead this work & partner with healthcare workers who are on the frontlines of Silicon Valley’s AI push. Listening to nurses describe their experiences of new tech--& raise questions about what happens when they say "no" to AI--has been beyond meaningful.

"To make the machine more human, they will make us more like the machine."

Hotel housekeepers used to track their work on a clipboard. Now they work for an app that docks points if a room cleaning takes too long. “You have a device telling you, ‘move here, move there,’ like if you were a robot." The latest from @proofnews.bsky.social: www.proofnews.org/hotel-housek...

As the Emmy Awards approach, watch this investigation into Instacart’s AI pricing led by AI Now Senior Fellow @katiejwells.bsky.social with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social. The video is nominated for an Emmy in Outstanding Investigative Coverage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxr...

cooked him like groceries

Honored to be recognized with this proclamation at Atlanta City Hall today by @kelseabondatl.bsky.social, the first socialist on city council. In my remarks, I spoke about how the suffering documented in my book, far from inevitable, is the direct outcome of policy choices and budget priorities.

Tesla reports that, in an least two incidents, its remote workers drove its autonomous cars into stationary objects 😬 This sounds v silly but actually raises important safety questions about the humans in the loop in self-driving operations www.wired.com/story/tesla-...

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

This from Taylor and Levin is by far the best political theory of data center opposition I've seen. You pick from the fights available, and choose the one that has an accessible target, some clear demands, and the broadest possible constituency. Where else are we supposed to fight Silicon Valley?

I am absolutely honored to be endorsed by the incredible folx at @indivisiblefredfwd.bsky.social. You all are brilliant and tireless and I can’t wait to throw down with you to redirect federal funding away from war and towards the care economy. 💗✌🏻

The new cover. Still hard to believe this is real.

The new @notus.com ("The Star") local news team is really exciting for DC!

my team at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social is hiring three new roles: a program associate, comms associate, and senior operations director. come join us in the fight to shape the future of AI in the public interest! more details here: bit.ly/49jMZe7

Today @theguardian.com has a big profile on @cplusc.bsky.social and our Stop Greed, Build Green working class climate agenda. The piece does a great job of capturing where we've been, what we're trying to accomplish, and why green economic populism beats fossil fueled fascism.

New podcast! In this episode, Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo speaks with Katie Wells, a senior fellow at the AI Now Institute and the author of two reports on the 'gig-ification' of nursing, to dig into how AI is reshaping the profession from the inside out.

This was a great episode. @katiejwells.bsky.social conveyed really well the contours & horrors of the situation and why we should all be concerned! Also the sadness, of those who got into nursing b/c they truly care, and are increasingly ground down by a system antithetical to providing good care.

Sharing an update to the Uber for Nursing report from @katiejwells.bsky.social, @fundaustek.bsky.social and Maya Pinto at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social on platforms’ active efforts to shape policy and regulation at the state level. 🧵

Bloomberg has a new piece on 'climateflation'—how climate change is driving up the cost of food, utilities, insurance, and housing. We connected these dots in Stop Greed, Build Green (stopgreedbuildgreen.org), and in a number of pieces over the past year 🧵

New paper with @jmigozzi.bsky.social! What kind of financial subjects emerge at the intersection of investment platforms and social media narratives of financial freedom? Come for our critique of fintech's 'democratization', stay for our innovative computational+qualitative methods!

All 22 members of the board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were fired on 24 April without explanation. go.nature.com/42tkCGv

"This is not innovation." Thankful to see our work resonating with nurses. www.instagram.com/reels/DXZ5_q...

In another sign that the depravity economy has no bottom, Forbes published a story about a man that killed 8 children over the weekend containing a box that asked readers to predict whether Congress would do anything about gun control. www.404media.co/forbes-predi...

This is bad bad bad and it's a point in favor of SAG-style fights over "digital likenesses" not just our usual terrain of "academic materials" or "intellectual property"