I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible.
Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:
BBC reporting that Anthropic has a new AI product so powerful - especially good at hacking - that it will not make it generally available but will let a few companies and maybe the US government have it. What could possibly go wrong?
Research: What China’s AI Agents Reveal About the Future of Commerce hbr.org/2026/04/rese... by Mark J. Greeven, Fabrice Beaulieu and Wei Wei.
O'Reilly - Generative AI in the Real World: Aishwarya Naresh Reganti on Making AI Work in Production with Ben Lorica and Aishwarya Naresh Reganti - www.oreilly.com/radar/podcas...
New paper: Beyond the tool view of AI: Intelligent technologies and the emergence of new epistemic regimes - Anastasia V Sergeeva, Paul M Leonardi, Samer Faraj, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Just published on FOSS Force: FunOS: Ubuntu LTS with JWM and No Snaps fossforce.com/2026/04/funo...
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
New paper in Science, Technology, & Human Values by David Ribes and Eric Monteiro journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Titled: More Instrument than Data
Happy International Women's Day!
Brits would decisively support rejoining the European Union if a new referendum were held, according to the latest polling from YouGov, with clear majorities emerging across all age groups – especially among younger voters
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bri...
This is very good.
Very interesting read by Dario Amodei, the CEO of @anthropic.com www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...
Introducing: The Security issue.
Security can mean national defense, but it can also mean control over data, safety from intrusion, and so much more.
Explore the way technology, mystery, and the universe itself affect how secure we feel in the modern age when you read the full issue. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Trying to exit my Bluesky-slumber with a research-related post :)
Here is a link to the study I am most excited and proud of this year.
There are expectations for rationality & human-likeness in the AI field. Is that a problem? See the paper to find out :)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Artificial Intelligence at Work: An Integrative Perspective on the Impact of AI on Workplace Inequality, by Arvind Karunakaran, Sarah Lebovitz, Devesh Narayanan and Hatim A. Rahman | Academy of Management Annals journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5...
This really can’t be pointed out enough
MIT following Harvard's lead here
Bravo Harvard
Harvard President, Alan M. Garber: "We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights."
www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
Half of Cambridge's European students have vanished. The Finnish undergraduates disappeared when fees were introduced.
www.varsity.co.uk/news/29471
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
Applications open for #ECIS2025 Junior Faculty Consortium in Jordan. Deadline: April 16. The co-chairs include Andrew Burton-Jones, Amany ElBanna and me. ecis2025.eu/events/junio... It promises to be a fantastic event so please do apply soon.
Privacy isn’t about hiding—it’s about trust and control over our own information. In her #SXSW 2025 Keynote, Signal President, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social breaks down why our privacy matters.
Huge crowd at Stand up for Science
How can Brexit Britain navigate Trump's World? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With the rapid deepening of a dangerous global divide, the UK faces hard choices. Could the latest proposals for UK-EU 'mutual recognition' be part of the answer? chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...
My pleasure. It is a very nice article!
The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
This white paper calls for collective action among developers, policymakers, and civil society to establish shared standards and implement solutions that balance open sharing with responsible governance. https://opensource.org/datagovernance
Google had created that pledge as a concession to workers campaigning against Pentagon drone AI contracts in 2018. Here's some of that history, that can put the chaotic events into context to make sense of what is new, what is old. jacobin.com/2018/06/goog...
