britt paris
@hellobrittparis.bsky.social
critical scholar of infrastructure & emergent technology | solidarity | Rutgers AAUP-AFT | views mine
Chair, AAUP ad hoc cmte on AI: https://bit.ly/4prVOZh
Chair, AAUP ad hoc cmte on AI: https://bit.ly/4prVOZh
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
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Considering developments in Michigan as a case study, Nathan Kim and Ira Anwar say current state incentives for data centers reflect a false binary between new jobs and detrimental community impacts.
Michigan Offers Handouts for Data Centers Promising Jobs. Will Those Jobs Come? | TechPolicy.Press
Nathan Kim and Ira Anwar say current state incentives for data centers reflect a false binary between new jobs and detrimental community impacts.
www.techpolicy.press
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Considering developments in Michigan as a case study, Nathan Kim and Ira Anwar say current state incentives for data centers reflect a false binary between new jobs and detrimental community impacts.
Join leadership and experts from @aaup.org AI team and Mijente for an online press conference on the urgent concerns about Palantir Technologies' involvement with the Department of Education. fedscoop.com/palantir-edu...
TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET
Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7
TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET
Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AAUP Press Conference: Why is the ED Contracting with Palantir?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are convening a press conference on the urgent concerns about Palantir Technologies' involvement in the ...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Join leadership and experts from @aaup.org AI team and Mijente for an online press conference on the urgent concerns about Palantir Technologies' involvement with the Department of Education. fedscoop.com/palantir-edu...
TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET
Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7
TOMORROW Wednesday, December 17, 4PM ET
Register here: bit.ly/4p3iCh7
Well good news is EOs (like this new state law AI moratorium EO) are relatively toothless and we can do things to thwart them, like push elected a to pass better laws that people actually want. 👇 It’s hard but can be done. @aaup.org ai cmte will be working on this. Join us if it make you mad too 💙
The U.S. House passed a bill Thursday that would overturn an executive order from President Donald Trump that strips collective bargaining rights for roughly 1 million federal employees, reports @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social.
In Trump rebuke, US House approves bill to overturn collective bargaining limit • West Virginia Watch
The U.S. House passed a bill that would overturn an executive order from Trump that strips collective bargaining rights for federal employees.
westvirginiawatch.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Well good news is EOs (like this new state law AI moratorium EO) are relatively toothless and we can do things to thwart them, like push elected a to pass better laws that people actually want. 👇 It’s hard but can be done. @aaup.org ai cmte will be working on this. Join us if it make you mad too 💙
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DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”
DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”
A new kind of digital camouflage emerges from DARPA AI research | Biometric Update
The technique, called DiffProtect, quietly rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
www.biometricupdate.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”
DiffProtect “rewrites a person’s face in a photograph using the same generative technology behind modern image creation tools.
The resulting photo still looks like the person to any human viewer, but to state-of-the-art facial recognition systems, the image becomes something else entirely.”
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This report is how I have channeled my rage as the tech industry has grown in wealth and power at the expense of workers, communities, and the environment. The old mechanisms of reform aren’t sufficient in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism datasociety.net/library/turn...
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This report is how I have channeled my rage as the tech industry has grown in wealth and power at the expense of workers, communities, and the environment. The old mechanisms of reform aren’t sufficient in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism datasociety.net/library/turn...
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Administrators are inking deals with OpenAI and inviting Palantir onto campus, ignoring faculty expertise and rolling out unproven data-thieving surveillance snake oil tech on our studens, staff and us. Enough.
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions
Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad ho...
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December 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Administrators are inking deals with OpenAI and inviting Palantir onto campus, ignoring faculty expertise and rolling out unproven data-thieving surveillance snake oil tech on our studens, staff and us. Enough.
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"this is approximately 40% of the full-time faculty and a significant reduction of an already burnt-out staff. AAUP National describes this attack as the largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
OFFICIAL Statement from AAUP-TNS on Cuts to Faculty and Staff 12-9-25
The New School - Austerity Cuts to the Bone A Statement from the Leadership Council of AAUP-TNS On December 3, 2025, New School President Joel Towers and Provost Richard Kessler issued voluntary sep...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"this is approximately 40% of the full-time faculty and a significant reduction of an already burnt-out staff. AAUP National describes this attack as the largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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So proud to see my friend and colleague @katiejwells.bsky.social ‘s critical research on the front page of today’s NYTimes!!!!
Katie, you are a trailblazing scholar! ❤️
Katie, you are a trailblazing scholar! ❤️
December 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
So proud to see my friend and colleague @katiejwells.bsky.social ‘s critical research on the front page of today’s NYTimes!!!!
Katie, you are a trailblazing scholar! ❤️
Katie, you are a trailblazing scholar! ❤️
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Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Y'all wanna warn your friends before you get on the "AI companion" bandwagon and warn your friends, help them get informed.
👀 Education Department spokesperson confirmed Palantir is a subcontractor to update the foreign funding portal, to monitor potential foreign influence in American schools...in a time when Federal funding is being revoked and watchwords are in place...👇
fedscoop.com/palantir-edu...
fedscoop.com/palantir-edu...
Palantir quietly lands in Education Department through foreign funding portal
The company is not publicly listed as part of the new portal project in federal spending records.
fedscoop.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
👀 Education Department spokesperson confirmed Palantir is a subcontractor to update the foreign funding portal, to monitor potential foreign influence in American schools...in a time when Federal funding is being revoked and watchwords are in place...👇
fedscoop.com/palantir-edu...
fedscoop.com/palantir-edu...
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Hard to list all the things that are wrong with this.
But hey if you needed some more data to show that the police is primarily a tool of race and class intimidation, and "solving crime" is a very low ranked priority.. at least this provides that?
But hey if you needed some more data to show that the police is primarily a tool of race and class intimidation, and "solving crime" is a very low ranked priority.. at least this provides that?
“…Goodyear’s police department appears to be one of the first to substitute hand-drawn sketches of suspects with lifelike images generated by AI.”
Have you seen this (AI-generated) man? Police swap suspect sketches for AI.
Police in a Phoenix suburb appear to be the first department in the nation to use AI for suspect sketches, a practice that raises concerns among some experts.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Hard to list all the things that are wrong with this.
But hey if you needed some more data to show that the police is primarily a tool of race and class intimidation, and "solving crime" is a very low ranked priority.. at least this provides that?
But hey if you needed some more data to show that the police is primarily a tool of race and class intimidation, and "solving crime" is a very low ranked priority.. at least this provides that?
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Can't believe there was a marketing department that thought any of these were selling points.
December 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Can't believe there was a marketing department that thought any of these were selling points.
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“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
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AI is not inevitable: A conversation with educators, unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience!
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AI is Not Inevitable. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
A conversation with educators, education unions and Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
AI is not inevitable: A conversation with educators, unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience!
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
Infrastructure and user consent for AI are brittle, despite what tech boosters hype would like you to believe. We can force our schools to renegotiate bad tech contracts and demand they consult us, among many other things. “AI is over if we want it”!!
The AAUP Ad Hoc committee on AI and Academic Professions & colleagues will discuss ongoing strategy building in the movement for tech justice and freedom from surveillance.
We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.
We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Infrastructure and user consent for AI are brittle, despite what tech boosters hype would like you to believe. We can force our schools to renegotiate bad tech contracts and demand they consult us, among many other things. “AI is over if we want it”!!
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At the beginning of this semester, my higher ed institution formalized guidelines stating that students should not be using AI for their classwork at all. The training for staff and faculty to use AI has quietly dropped off the schedule, too. The pushback is working!
AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
At the beginning of this semester, my higher ed institution formalized guidelines stating that students should not be using AI for their classwork at all. The training for staff and faculty to use AI has quietly dropped off the schedule, too. The pushback is working!
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AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
AI Is Not Inevitable
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.
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Bleak but important essay by Ronald Purser on AI capitulation at California State University. We need to push back against this in our own institutions.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Bleak but important essay by Ronald Purser on AI capitulation at California State University. We need to push back against this in our own institutions.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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If you think generative AI should be integrated into the classroom then you also think management consultancies should determine the future for higher education. Both are ethics-free forms of machinic optimisation based on reductive abstractions that strip out important context and relationships.
🔴 NEW: The University of Edinburgh has quietly paid more than £750,000 to a controversial consulting firm amid job cuts - staff say bosses ignored "repeated" questions about its role.
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
Read more about 'Nousferatu' 👉 www.theferret.scot/p...
December 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
If you think generative AI should be integrated into the classroom then you also think management consultancies should determine the future for higher education. Both are ethics-free forms of machinic optimisation based on reductive abstractions that strip out important context and relationships.
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The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.
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US telecom company trained an ai model to scan incarcerated people’s “calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.”
An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls
The model is built to detect when crimes are being “contemplated.”
www.technologyreview.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
US telecom company trained an ai model to scan incarcerated people’s “calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.”
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!