First was the second day of the @etui.bsky.social occupational safety and health conference. I particularly liked the talks by Juan Sebastian Carbonell (limits to algorithmic management) and @aloisi.bsky.social 👋 (AI at work: product or people safety?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL9... (2/4)
Our annual occupational safety and health (OSH) conference is back, and this year's theme couldn't be more topical:
OSH in the age of artificial intelligence 💻 📱 🤖
#AI sceptic Emily Bender: ‘The emperor has no clothes’
The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’ www.ft.com/content/9029...
I won't deny that it needs a revision since it's started interacting with the real world but I agree we ought to criticise and refine, scrapping it won't do anything beyond make people's lives worse for the sake of capital gains.
Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed. #AI could still ignite a #productivity renaissance, only if we use it to dig deeper for new and inconceivable endeavours rather than merely drilling more holes > www.ft.com/content/55bc... via @carlbfrey.bsky.social
Elon Musk steps down from Trump administration on.ft.com/4kfE2WC
“By all means, critique the GDPR, but aim at the right target. Its abstract, transactional, individualistic DNA is ill-suited to the collective, lopsided reality of modern workplaces where employees’ data is fed into black-box AI systems.”
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🪚 Put the chainsaw away. Critique the GDPR, but aim at the right target. Its abstract, transactional, individualistic DNA is ill-suited to the collective, power-loopsided reality of workplaces where data feeds #AI systems. Here, the answer is not to prune protections; it is to reinforce them.
Blaming the #GDPR for Europe’s growth woes makes for clickbait, but it dodges the real issues. Looser data protection rules will not fix our problems. A smarter framework for digital rights could serve as a counterbalance, ensuring that #algorithmicmanagement systems operate as tools for efficiency.
#DOGE docet: deregulation might lead to chaos rather than efficiency. Robust rules are essential to guarantee clarity and transparency. Especially in the digital sector, setting clear guardrails is vital to contain both the excesses of techbroligarchs and the erraticism of their satellites-in-chief.
✂️ “Simplify”. “Streamline”. “Scale back”. Brussels is all about boosting competitiveness by cutting red tape. The intention to stimulate the economy is laudable, but there is a real risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Trimming will achieve little.
theconversation.com/were-critici...
@leaypi.bsky.social su come le democrazie si illudono di gestire la complessità intervenendo sui capi espiatori. Superare le frontiere come indole “animale” e necessità umana. Idee per un’#Europa diversa, lenti per correggere la miopia di oggi | via @eugeniocau.bsky.social
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We launched it at an on-campus event hosted by the IE Law School LawAhead Center on the Legal Profession, w/ Pilar Galeote, Nicolás Parra Herrera, Soledad Atienza Becerril, and Cristina Andrés, followed by debate legal practitioners: www.ie.edu/law-school/n...
⚖️ Hot off the press! Our new report, “Innovation Beyond Technology. The Crucial Role of Skills in Driving Change in the Legal Profession: Perspectives from Lawyers at Major Firms in Spain”, is now available: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... via @ielawschool
+ #LawtomationDays | CALL4PAPERS | Technology and (Dis)Trust: #AI between confidence and controversy +
📅 Thursday, 2 & Friday, 3 Oct 2025
📍 IE Law School, Madrid
📞 lawtomation.ie.edu/conference/
⏳ Deadline for submission: Sunday, 15 June 2025
🔁 Please circulate widely and wildly
The tech billionaires’ faith in this religion of technological salvation leads them to believe the end of this world, & the advent of a perfect one is nigh. They must believe, despite all evidence to the contrary. The rest of us are stuck in the real world www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
✍🏽 “House of gigs: Domestic workers, algorithmic management and the Platform Work Directive”; the draft of our latest co-authored chapter is out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Bluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.
How to Survive the #AI Revolution
The challenge isn’t just understanding where A.I. is headed but shaping its direction before we lose all possibility of control: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... via @newyorker.com
📅 Conference dates: Thursday, 2 and Friday, 3 October 2025
📍 IE Law School, @ieuniversity.bsky.social · Madrid, Spain
📞 Call for Papers: linkedin.com/feed/update/...
⏳ The deadline for submission is Sunday, 15 June 2025
🔁 Please circulate the #SaveTheDate widely, and wildly.
Is law the most appropriate tool to build trust, or should other mechanisms, such as ethics, corporate responsibility and technical safeguards, play a greater role in fostering confidence in digital ecosystems?
How can legal frameworks sustain trustworthiness in #AI-driven decision-making and digital governance? How can law not only inform automation but also ensure faith in the institutions and mechanisms it establishes?
🎯 The 4th edition of the IE #Lawtomation Days will explore the impact and limits of regulation through the lens of trust
This year’s theme—#Technology and (Dis)Trust—focuses on the legal and institutional mechanisms shaping confidence and controversy in #AI
lawtomation.ie.edu/conference/
There’s no longer any scenario in which A.I. fades into irrelevance. We urgently need voices from outside the industry to help shape its future.
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
🚨 Our “monumental” study on algorithmic management –exploring its context, sociolegal challenges, opportunities and emerging trends– is finally out!
📎 You can access the full study here, summary, annexes, empirical & legal databases included: employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/study-explor...
A white-collar world without juniors? | Opinion
www.ft.com/content/8e730692-fd9c-45...
You can’t just learn how to craft a prompt for an A.I. chatbot without first having the experience, exposure and, yes, education to know what the heck you are doing. Learning is a messy, nonlinear human development process that resists efficiency. A.I. cannot replace it.
