@djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while #AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger resistance: buff.ly/nVBFBQj

"The degree to which AI is able to harm our society and environment will depend on how best we can organise in opposition to those harms." New blog from @djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri on why we need to #ResistAI

Yesterday @ducu.bsky.social passed this motion in solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social. I didn't write this lightly, but at this point I wasn't sure what else to do. @ucu.org.uk staff are essential to letting the union run. They back us so we back them. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

When, some months ago,  we first posted our members’ testimonies - lived experiences of working for UCU - our employer’s only response was a demand they be removed. No contrition, shame or concern for their staff: just an anger we’d shared them. #UniteVoices uniteucu.wordpress.com/campaign-cam...

Early-Career Marxism Roundtable + CSE/Capital & Class Early Career & Independent Researchers (ECIR) Network Launch Organised by Elio di Muccio & David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social Are you a doctoral/EC scholar working w Marxism? Join this roundtable in Birmingham docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Anti-AI - nice to see this new piece - How we might be Anti-AI, co-authored with Iran Mansouri just out in @gpejournal.bsky.social Trying to think different ways to imagine alternatives to a life reduced to objects of capitalist quantification bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Is #AI adoption really inevitable? Masoumeh Iran Mansouri & David J. Bailey challenge this narrative and set out five ways to be ‘anti-AI’. doi.org/10.1332/2635... #AIresistance

Reminder: Join our Online Workshop on 27 February to discuss 'Regional pathologies of late-stage neoliberalization: The case of Japan in East Asia' With authors Saori Shibata & David Bailey Discussants: @ndeiana.bsky.social & Max Nagel Link: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there!