Really excited to announce that my new book, Love Machines will be coming out on 15 January 2026 with Faber!

My new article with Tongyu Wu and Bingqing Xia is out, 'Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Jonas Valente and I have just published a new @lbc.co.uk opinion piece, drawing on our @towardsfairwork.bsky.social cloudwork study to warn that a UK–EU youth mobility scheme could inadvertently funnel young people into exploitative gig roles: www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... @jonasvalente.bsky.social

A very valuable meeting point in academic journey. Team 'platform without borders' Thank you @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, @andretwp.bsky.social & Denise Kasparian for putting this together.

CPT just published a symposium on my book! huge thanks to Susan Bickford, @pollysigh.bsky.social, @nicolecurato.bsky.social, @jgastil.bsky.social, Victor Bruzzone, @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social for contributions that critique, stretch, & apply the book's argument in such generous & productive ways

📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Really cool piece by @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social and Dougie Booth on Rosa Luxemburg's vision for socialist democracy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Many human-AI relationships and the companies that make them possible are like a Black Mirror episode come to life. I spoke with David Batty about them recently for this article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It is publication day for THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS (@columbiaup.bsky.social), a book about the materials that make movies possible and how to read between the raw materials and the screen worlds they create.

This is a brilliant, powerful essay Jeanne Morefield, "Blood ties: Trump’s 'invasion' narrative and the real story of pain in America" www.bostonreview.net/articles/blo...

In one fell stroke, the Clintons transformed health care reform into the third rail of American politics and buttressed the relentless pursuit of geopolitical primacy. @morefius.bsky.social on the bipartisan failures that have led to this dire moment:

🚀 The official French-subtitled preview of our documentary ‘In the Belly of AI’ is here! 🎬 📺 Full broadcast on Tue., Feb. 11, at 10:40pm CET on France 2!🔥 by @henripoulain.bsky.social Julian Goetz & me ft. @milamiceli.bsky.social @xriskology.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social & more

Andreesen likened DeepSeek to a ‘Sputnik moment’ Is it an appropriate analogy? My colleagues and I @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social unpacked it as part of our global politics of AI research area www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

great to be on @PoliticsJOE_UK to chat about our book Feeding the Machine, DeepSeek and a little bit about my new book on AI companions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-J...

Another short piece from me where I express my disappointment at how the UK AI Opportunities Action Plan prioritises industry interests and language and highlight how this creates tensions for acting responsibly with AI. My latest in @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/106837/uk-ai...

DeepSeek shows alternative models of AI are possible - so long as you don't ask it about Winnie the Pooh. open.substack.com/pub/doesnotc...

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.” @morefius.bsky.social on Trump’s invasion narrative, the opioid epidemic, U.S. exceptionalism, and the real story of pain in America:

Trump's inauguration marks a seismic political shift in Silicon Valley - a complete capitulation to the far right and the beginning of a new era of 'tech for evil': trashing the environment, military AI, misinformation and rampant cronyism. open.substack.com/pub/doesnotc...

As Trump is inaugurated, he is flanked by many top tech CEOs who have all bent the knee and vowed to work hand in hand with the incoming President: Bezos, Zuckerberg, Pichai, Musk, Cook, Chew all attending.

The most amusing part of the whole TikTok ban saga is how many young Americans are discovering a whole new world of Chinese propaganda on Chinese social media platforms like Xiaohongshu as a result of the possible blackout

Last year, I spent a lot of time talking to insiders at the UK's AI Safety Institute. It's the world's leading govt body for tracking AI dangers. My piece, published today, goes behind the scenes to ask the question: Can it really hold billion-dollar AI companies to account? time.com/7204670/uk-a...

Nobody is more responsible for the rise of a tech industrial complex than Obama-era Democrats who courted them and did everything possible to grow their power. www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24...

Karl Marx’ conversion from republicanism to communism in 1844 was conducted through the 19th-century equivalent of a passive-aggressive text message to your roommate: a formal letter to his housemate Arnold Ruge over hot gossip. Excerpt from @brunoleipold.com’s Citizen Marx.

Here is our review on Daily Kos: www.dailykos.com/stories/2024... Written by Mark Graham (@geoplace.bsky.social), James Muldoon (@jamesmuldoon.bsky.social) and Callum Cant, it details the lives of low-wage workers, mostly women, in places like Kenya, India and the Philippines....

Sign up for the new Economic Republicanism newsletter which Louis Mosar and Sean Irving are releasing. economic-republicanism-newsletter.kit.com/8e5398b027

Had a great time talking about our book Feeing the Machine at LSE this week with Callum Cant.