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Addressing AI at work can be challenging. It touches on personal, professional, and political. Our work with @cwunews.bsky.social is designed to break down implications into actionable union responses.
Read more from @adamc-c.bsky.social on phase 2 connectedbydata.org/blog/2026/0...
Read more from @adamc-c.bsky.social on phase 2 connectedbydata.org/blog/2026/0...
CWU and AI - Activating members and building towards negotiation
Addressing the complex issues surrounding AI at work can be challenging. It touches on personal experiences, professional roles, and charged political views on Big Tech. It often involves vague or technical terminology. It’s a topic that many employers will see as their ‘management prerogative’ and out of scope for collective bargaining or even worker consultation.
connectedbydata.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Addressing AI at work can be challenging. It touches on personal, professional, and political. Our work with @cwunews.bsky.social is designed to break down implications into actionable union responses.
Read more from @adamc-c.bsky.social on phase 2 connectedbydata.org/blog/2026/0...
Read more from @adamc-c.bsky.social on phase 2 connectedbydata.org/blog/2026/0...
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As AI and automation disrupt entry-level jobs, how can young people from low-income backgrounds access better work?
In Youth Employment Week, we're excited to be publishing this research with the EY Foundation highlighting why internal motivation is so crucial:
www.ifow.org/publications...
In Youth Employment Week, we're excited to be publishing this research with the EY Foundation highlighting why internal motivation is so crucial:
www.ifow.org/publications...
July 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
As AI and automation disrupt entry-level jobs, how can young people from low-income backgrounds access better work?
In Youth Employment Week, we're excited to be publishing this research with the EY Foundation highlighting why internal motivation is so crucial:
www.ifow.org/publications...
In Youth Employment Week, we're excited to be publishing this research with the EY Foundation highlighting why internal motivation is so crucial:
www.ifow.org/publications...
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💬 The future of work: A manifesto for 2030
IFOW Co-Director @abbygkgilbert.bsky.social joined @isabelberwick.ft.com, Colette Stallbaumer and Christine Armstrong at the FT Women in Business Summit to explore how women work best, and what needs to be done to reshape how, where and why we work
IFOW Co-Director @abbygkgilbert.bsky.social joined @isabelberwick.ft.com, Colette Stallbaumer and Christine Armstrong at the FT Women in Business Summit to explore how women work best, and what needs to be done to reshape how, where and why we work
June 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
💬 The future of work: A manifesto for 2030
IFOW Co-Director @abbygkgilbert.bsky.social joined @isabelberwick.ft.com, Colette Stallbaumer and Christine Armstrong at the FT Women in Business Summit to explore how women work best, and what needs to be done to reshape how, where and why we work
IFOW Co-Director @abbygkgilbert.bsky.social joined @isabelberwick.ft.com, Colette Stallbaumer and Christine Armstrong at the FT Women in Business Summit to explore how women work best, and what needs to be done to reshape how, where and why we work
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Data centers could greatly reduce the strain they put on the grid by scaling down operations and lowering electricity use in less than 1% of all hours, so why don't they. In my Energy Institute post today, I dig into the need to improve incentives. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/c...
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Can Data Centers Flex Their Power Demand?
First they need to have the right incentives to do so. Electricity world these days is filled with concern about supersized (“hyperscale”) data centers, those computing facilities that use more ele…
energyathaas.wordpress.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Data centers could greatly reduce the strain they put on the grid by scaling down operations and lowering electricity use in less than 1% of all hours, so why don't they. In my Energy Institute post today, I dig into the need to improve incentives. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/c...
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‘I talked to Gates Foundation participants who said Henry V had offered them a safe way to consider leadership in action.’ @margaretheffernan.bsky.social on why the arts and humanities provide essential training in the skills that employers say they need
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The problem with workers who can’t think for themselves
Education that prioritises Stem over the arts may struggle to teach initiative, innovation and curiosity
on.ft.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM
‘I talked to Gates Foundation participants who said Henry V had offered them a safe way to consider leadership in action.’ @margaretheffernan.bsky.social on why the arts and humanities provide essential training in the skills that employers say they need
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on.ft.com/3XU1y2w
“While much of the world operates on a just-in-time supply model, China takes a different approach, hoarding vast reserves to protect against price swings, geopolitical tensions, and climate shocks.”
Why is China hoarding grains and other commodities?
Are they preparing for famine, tariffs or war? #agsky #econsky
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Are they preparing for famine, tariffs or war? #agsky #econsky
episode3.net/grain/why-is...
Why is China hoarding grains and other commodities? - Episode 3
Are they preparing for famine, tariffs or war?
episode3.net
March 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
“While much of the world operates on a just-in-time supply model, China takes a different approach, hoarding vast reserves to protect against price swings, geopolitical tensions, and climate shocks.”
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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Important for all the irate lecturers trying to convince students that learning to write compellingly, alone, still matters
March 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Important for all the irate lecturers trying to convince students that learning to write compellingly, alone, still matters
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What are immersive technologies?
Our new explainer provides a shared vocabulary by summarising the main types of these technologies, including what makes them ‘immersive’.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/resource/imm...
Our new explainer provides a shared vocabulary by summarising the main types of these technologies, including what makes them ‘immersive’.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/resource/imm...
What are immersive technologies?
This explainer covers virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) and immersive virtual worlds (IVWs).
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
What are immersive technologies?
Our new explainer provides a shared vocabulary by summarising the main types of these technologies, including what makes them ‘immersive’.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/resource/imm...
Our new explainer provides a shared vocabulary by summarising the main types of these technologies, including what makes them ‘immersive’.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/resource/imm...
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Investors dare to imagine a world beyond the dollar - If the EU could seize this moment and issue joint debt, it would tap in to a deep well of willing buyers keen to trim US exposure. on.ft.com/4iHtsH1 via @FT
Investors dare to imagine a world beyond the dollar
The US could dismantle its own exorbitant privilege by pushing the big bond market beasts into the arms of others
on.ft.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Investors dare to imagine a world beyond the dollar - If the EU could seize this moment and issue joint debt, it would tap in to a deep well of willing buyers keen to trim US exposure. on.ft.com/4iHtsH1 via @FT
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A well-paid, four-year PhD position in political theory/philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, to work primarily with my wonderful colleagues Lillian Cicerchia and Paul Raekstad, and also a bit with yours truly. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD Position in Political Theory
A fully-funded, four-year PhD position in political theory at the University of Amsterdam. We are open to research proposals in any area of political theory. We are particularly interested in candidat...
werkenbij.uva.nl
March 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A well-paid, four-year PhD position in political theory/philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, to work primarily with my wonderful colleagues Lillian Cicerchia and Paul Raekstad, and also a bit with yours truly. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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With Apple pulling the plug on at-rest end-to-end encryption in the UK, and Signal threatening to pull out of Sweden if that government demands special access, it's looking bleak
Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors. New opinion piece here
www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/o...
Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors. New opinion piece here
www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/o...
Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors
Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go
www.theregister.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
With Apple pulling the plug on at-rest end-to-end encryption in the UK, and Signal threatening to pull out of Sweden if that government demands special access, it's looking bleak
Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors. New opinion piece here
www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/o...
Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors. New opinion piece here
www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/o...
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🎧 What happens when a key US intelligence watchdog loses its independent oversight? This episode unpacks Trump’s firing of PCLOB members, the lawsuit announced last week, and what it means for privacy, surveillance, and US-EU data relations. Featuring interviews with Travis LeBlanc and Greg Nojeim:
Watching the Watchers: The Future of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board | TechPolicy.Press
After President Trump terminated the Democratic members of the PCLOB, its effectiveness and future independence are in doubt.
www.techpolicy.press
March 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🎧 What happens when a key US intelligence watchdog loses its independent oversight? This episode unpacks Trump’s firing of PCLOB members, the lawsuit announced last week, and what it means for privacy, surveillance, and US-EU data relations. Featuring interviews with Travis LeBlanc and Greg Nojeim:
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"The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks." 🔥
My new piece in @theguardian.com
Techno-optimism is human pessimism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Techno-optimism is human pessimism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett
Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks." 🔥
“Self-determination of national or cultural communities requires regulative structures at the supranational level strong enough to secure relations of equal integration into the global community and protect local communities from exploitation, expropriation and excursion”
Compelling & timely paper stating the case for a politics which recognises the primacy of the nation state, and it’s allocative autonomy (determining relations of production&distribution) while also working towards a democratically integrated global system.
March 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“Self-determination of national or cultural communities requires regulative structures at the supranational level strong enough to secure relations of equal integration into the global community and protect local communities from exploitation, expropriation and excursion”
Compelling & timely paper stating the case for a politics which recognises the primacy of the nation state, and it’s allocative autonomy (determining relations of production&distribution) while also working towards a democratically integrated global system.
March 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Compelling & timely paper stating the case for a politics which recognises the primacy of the nation state, and it’s allocative autonomy (determining relations of production&distribution) while also working towards a democratically integrated global system.
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NEW
First of three papers in a major study from @nprcoxford.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social.
TLDR - The credibility of all political parties in tackling household economic insecurity looks set to be one of the crucial dividing lines of the parliament.
www.theguardian.com/business/202... 1/
First of three papers in a major study from @nprcoxford.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social.
TLDR - The credibility of all political parties in tackling household economic insecurity looks set to be one of the crucial dividing lines of the parliament.
www.theguardian.com/business/202... 1/
Labour losing support fastest among voters worried over finances, study finds
Poverty charity urges Keir Starmer to focus on living standards instead of culture wars and immigration
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
NEW
First of three papers in a major study from @nprcoxford.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social.
TLDR - The credibility of all political parties in tackling household economic insecurity looks set to be one of the crucial dividing lines of the parliament.
www.theguardian.com/business/202... 1/
First of three papers in a major study from @nprcoxford.bsky.social and @jrf-uk.bsky.social.
TLDR - The credibility of all political parties in tackling household economic insecurity looks set to be one of the crucial dividing lines of the parliament.
www.theguardian.com/business/202... 1/
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In partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social, David Autor and I are seeking funding proposals from researchers conducting innovative field experiments on the labor economics of frontier AI. Expressions of interest due March 31. shapingwork.mit.edu/call-for-pro...
Call for Proposals: The Labor Economics of Frontier AI - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
shapingwork.mit.edu
February 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
In partnership with @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social, David Autor and I are seeking funding proposals from researchers conducting innovative field experiments on the labor economics of frontier AI. Expressions of interest due March 31. shapingwork.mit.edu/call-for-pro...
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Just seeing the RCT 'scandal' brewing among econs again. This is not a question about some bad apples or some instances of malpractice. The RCT industry has been completely distorted from its inception in Econ and this is closely tied to the incentive structure of the discipline.
February 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Just seeing the RCT 'scandal' brewing among econs again. This is not a question about some bad apples or some instances of malpractice. The RCT industry has been completely distorted from its inception in Econ and this is closely tied to the incentive structure of the discipline.
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This seems like a ridiculous gambit when our huge tech firms don’t have a technological advantage, they just have a user base
Tech billionaires demanded Donald Trump use the power of the US government to pressure other countries not to crack down on them.
Now Trump is pulling out of a global tax agreement and threatening tariffs against countries that pass digital services taxes targeting multinational tech companies.
Now Trump is pulling out of a global tax agreement and threatening tariffs against countries that pass digital services taxes targeting multinational tech companies.
Silicon Valley is enlisting Trump in its war against higher taxes
Trump wants to stop digital services taxes and a global minimum corporate tax rate
www.disconnect.blog
February 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This seems like a ridiculous gambit when our huge tech firms don’t have a technological advantage, they just have a user base
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Publishers suing AI startup for ©️ and TM infringement?? Reputational harm stemming from being linked as fictional articles. Now only if ©️ authors could rely on [artistic] reputational harm for being used for training AI models. How the pendulum swings.
www.worldtrademarkreview.com/article/inac...
www.worldtrademarkreview.com/article/inac...
Inaccurate AI output is damaging news brands, major media corporations claim
In a recent complaint against AI firm Cohere, plaintiffs including Forbes, Guardian News and Politico join the growing list of media companies accusing AI developers of damaging their news brands.
www.worldtrademarkreview.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Publishers suing AI startup for ©️ and TM infringement?? Reputational harm stemming from being linked as fictional articles. Now only if ©️ authors could rely on [artistic] reputational harm for being used for training AI models. How the pendulum swings.
www.worldtrademarkreview.com/article/inac...
www.worldtrademarkreview.com/article/inac...
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Twinkle, twinkle, little Starlink: my Trade Secrets today.
Countries are scrambling to set up their own satellite systems rather than depend on geopolitical foes. It's all part of the politicisation of the plumbing of the world economy.
Countries are scrambling to set up their own satellite systems rather than depend on geopolitical foes. It's all part of the politicisation of the plumbing of the world economy.
Satellite rivalries are politicising the world’s economic plumbing
[FREE TO READ] Governments are increasingly wary of relying on foreign communication systems
on.ft.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Twinkle, twinkle, little Starlink: my Trade Secrets today.
Countries are scrambling to set up their own satellite systems rather than depend on geopolitical foes. It's all part of the politicisation of the plumbing of the world economy.
Countries are scrambling to set up their own satellite systems rather than depend on geopolitical foes. It's all part of the politicisation of the plumbing of the world economy.
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DeepSunk
(Bloomberg) - Microsoft Corp. has begun canceling leases for a substantial amount of datacenter capacity in the US, a move that may reflect concerns about whether it’s building more AI computing than it will need over the long term, TD Cowen said in a report.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
February 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
DeepSunk
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1. Background to the epochal change in German and European politics after the election. Merz, the presumed next Chancellor has said that Europe is setting out to "achieve its independence from the US, step by step." @abenewman.bsky.social and I explain the background in our book, Underground Empire
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy [Farrell, Henry, Newman, Abraham] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
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February 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
1. Background to the epochal change in German and European politics after the election. Merz, the presumed next Chancellor has said that Europe is setting out to "achieve its independence from the US, step by step." @abenewman.bsky.social and I explain the background in our book, Underground Empire