🤖New Tech, New Threat?🤖 New working paper w/ @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Geoff Evans asks: Are AI-exposed workers demanding more gov. regulation? In Britain, it looks like yes. Though not the only factor, AI’s workplace rollout matters politics. LINK: advance.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/16

To try to be restrained and persuasive: 1) Academic work (like most things) is of varying quality 2) There is an enormous leftward ideological skew to the lowest-quality work 3) 1 + 2 makes it hard for credentialed "expertise" to be credible even when most experts are good

Most interesting thing for me: a majority of Lib Dems back the sentiment, and almost half take no issue with the language. Supports @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social's research emphasising how poorly understood Lib Dem voters are. Not nec. true that Labour losses there are disaffected social liberals.

NEW - Family Matters: How Concerns about the Financial Wellbeing of Young Relatives Shape the Political Preferences of Older Adults - cup.org/3Gny1bz - @zackgp94.bsky.social, @profjanegreen.bsky.social & Geoffrey Evans #OpenAccess