Ariel Conn
@ariel-conn.bsky.social
I work on and write about issues around #AI, autonomous weapons, #climatechange, #longcovid, and healing techniques for many other chronic health conditions. Learn more about my health experiences at www.thehealingpathways.org.
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Read "The Role of 'Everyone Else' in the International Effort Toward Responsible AI" by @ariel-conn.bsky.social: perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/news-and-ins...
The Role of "Everyone Else" in the International Effort Toward Responsible AI - Perry World House
More than 40,000 people participated in the AI Action Summit in France earlier this year, while roughly 10,000 people participated in the AI for Good Summit at the United Nations this past July. More ...
perryworldhouse.upenn.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Read "The Role of 'Everyone Else' in the International Effort Toward Responsible AI" by @ariel-conn.bsky.social: perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/news-and-ins...
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New #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode features Lena Trabucco chatting about human control in warfare, what distinguishes AI-enabled wepaon systems from traditional weapons & how the role of military operators is evolving 👇🏼
October 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New #ResponsibleBytesPodcast episode features Lena Trabucco chatting about human control in warfare, what distinguishes AI-enabled wepaon systems from traditional weapons & how the role of military operators is evolving 👇🏼
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Everything is going great.
ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners
Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.
futurism.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Everything is going great.
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The U.S and China both recently released AI action plans. Between their trade tensions and the U.S push for deregulation, there's a lot to unpack here.
I've unpacked the details of the two action plans & the U.S - China tensions in this @justsecurity.org article 👇🏼
I've unpacked the details of the two action plans & the U.S - China tensions in this @justsecurity.org article 👇🏼
The U.S. AI Action Plan emphasizes technological dominance, while #China’s plan stresses inclusivity and cooperation.
This split reveals a growing fault line in global #AI governance, writes Zena Assaad.
www.justsecurity.org/119966/what-...
This split reveals a growing fault line in global #AI governance, writes Zena Assaad.
www.justsecurity.org/119966/what-...
Dueling Strategies for Global AI Leadership? What the U.S. and China Action Plans Reveal
The U.S.-China AI rivalry raises urgent questions for global stability, intensifying fragmentation, chip chokepoints and global AI governance.
www.justsecurity.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The U.S and China both recently released AI action plans. Between their trade tensions and the U.S push for deregulation, there's a lot to unpack here.
I've unpacked the details of the two action plans & the U.S - China tensions in this @justsecurity.org article 👇🏼
I've unpacked the details of the two action plans & the U.S - China tensions in this @justsecurity.org article 👇🏼
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How are flight attendants not paid for time on the ground??? I had no idea! That's completely unacceptable.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How are flight attendants not paid for time on the ground??? I had no idea! That's completely unacceptable.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US flight attendants push to be paid when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’
Cabin crews across North America aren’t paid for work done before takeoff, but new Air Canada deal has raised hope
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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How are flight attendants not paid for time on the ground??? I had no idea! That's completely unacceptable.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How are flight attendants not paid for time on the ground??? I had no idea! That's completely unacceptable.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Really wish more prominent Dems would say this.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Really wish more prominent Dems would say this.
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Just an fyi we’re really not going to like what comes after “military control of the capital”
August 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Just an fyi we’re really not going to like what comes after “military control of the capital”
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Remember: you "not living up to the expectations" of people & institutions who abuse & gaslight is the GOOD news.
We wanna live our life in such a way that those people & institutions are profoundly "disappointed" in us, every day. That means we're doing it RIGHT.
We wanna live our life in such a way that those people & institutions are profoundly "disappointed" in us, every day. That means we're doing it RIGHT.
August 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Remember: you "not living up to the expectations" of people & institutions who abuse & gaslight is the GOOD news.
We wanna live our life in such a way that those people & institutions are profoundly "disappointed" in us, every day. That means we're doing it RIGHT.
We wanna live our life in such a way that those people & institutions are profoundly "disappointed" in us, every day. That means we're doing it RIGHT.
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My latest must-reads list and some thoughts on why everything feels harder right now. “We're dealing with a series of horrors that are vicious, and they're spiritually exhausting and difficult to combat in law," says @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. "Authoritarianism is here ... and it's sadistic.”
Must-Reads and Why Everything Feels Harder Right Now
"Don't lose your heart,” says Sarah Kendzior.
organizingmythoughts.org
August 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My latest must-reads list and some thoughts on why everything feels harder right now. “We're dealing with a series of horrors that are vicious, and they're spiritually exhausting and difficult to combat in law," says @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. "Authoritarianism is here ... and it's sadistic.”
I can’t get past the pay wall, but the headline says it all.
Pete Hegseth continues his purge of women from U.S. military leadership, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.
The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place
Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.
bit.ly
July 31, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I can’t get past the pay wall, but the headline says it all.
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This is what my cousin just got from her kid’s public school in Texas. What part of “freedom of religion” includes forcing the Ten Commandments into every classroom?
My family fled theocracy in Iran. This is what we came to America to *escape.*
My family fled theocracy in Iran. This is what we came to America to *escape.*
July 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is what my cousin just got from her kid’s public school in Texas. What part of “freedom of religion” includes forcing the Ten Commandments into every classroom?
My family fled theocracy in Iran. This is what we came to America to *escape.*
My family fled theocracy in Iran. This is what we came to America to *escape.*
The researchers claim this is surprising. Have they never been around sick people and felt their bodies respond? I genuinely thought this was already a well known phenomenon.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Sight of someone potentially infectious causes immune response, research suggests
Scientists use VR headsets to see how participants react to faces of people showing signs of viral infections
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The researchers claim this is surprising. Have they never been around sick people and felt their bodies respond? I genuinely thought this was already a well known phenomenon.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
I had an amazing realization recently: I can cancel my subscriptions and just buy the music and movies and TV shows that I like. I'm experimenting with that now. If all else fails, I may just resort to reading more books in my free time.
My latest newsletter is about how Big Tech killed the concept of ownership, in the process turning consumers into digital serfs.
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whatwelost.substack.com/p/i-miss-act...
I Miss Actually Owning Stuff
"You'll own nothing and you'll hate it"
whatwelost.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I had an amazing realization recently: I can cancel my subscriptions and just buy the music and movies and TV shows that I like. I'm experimenting with that now. If all else fails, I may just resort to reading more books in my free time.
When we recognize emotions as physiological reactions occurring in our bodies, it starts to become possible to understand how emotional stuff can be connected to chronic, physical illness AND that these are very real and very physical illnesses.
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Psychological or emotional?
Why I believe words matter when it comes to healing many chronic conditions
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July 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When we recognize emotions as physiological reactions occurring in our bodies, it starts to become possible to understand how emotional stuff can be connected to chronic, physical illness AND that these are very real and very physical illnesses.
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Apparently Delta is now using AI to figure out how much we’re each willing to pay for tickets, so that they can charge each of us, individually, as much as possible. The supposed “benefits” of AI really depend on who you are.
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket
The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.
fortune.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Apparently Delta is now using AI to figure out how much we’re each willing to pay for tickets, so that they can charge each of us, individually, as much as possible. The supposed “benefits” of AI really depend on who you are.
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
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🛑 SIGNS A PROVIDER HASNT BEEN TRAINED IN PAIN
❌ blames it just on tissue damage & skips the 🧠
❌ recommends only 💊 or 🔪
❌ fails to target diet, sleep, trauma, movement, mental health
❌ targets only a body part, not a WHOLE PERSON
📣 Pain is biopsychosocial ALWAYS 👏🏼👏🏼
#neuroskyence #medsky #psychsky 🧪
❌ blames it just on tissue damage & skips the 🧠
❌ recommends only 💊 or 🔪
❌ fails to target diet, sleep, trauma, movement, mental health
❌ targets only a body part, not a WHOLE PERSON
📣 Pain is biopsychosocial ALWAYS 👏🏼👏🏼
#neuroskyence #medsky #psychsky 🧪
July 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
🛑 SIGNS A PROVIDER HASNT BEEN TRAINED IN PAIN
❌ blames it just on tissue damage & skips the 🧠
❌ recommends only 💊 or 🔪
❌ fails to target diet, sleep, trauma, movement, mental health
❌ targets only a body part, not a WHOLE PERSON
📣 Pain is biopsychosocial ALWAYS 👏🏼👏🏼
#neuroskyence #medsky #psychsky 🧪
❌ blames it just on tissue damage & skips the 🧠
❌ recommends only 💊 or 🔪
❌ fails to target diet, sleep, trauma, movement, mental health
❌ targets only a body part, not a WHOLE PERSON
📣 Pain is biopsychosocial ALWAYS 👏🏼👏🏼
#neuroskyence #medsky #psychsky 🧪
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I use the click-to-cancel FTC rule all the time to explain why the war on the admin state matters. The whole "shadowy deep state bureaucrats!!!!!" characterization really loses momentum once you flesh out what the shadowy deep state bureaucrats do
I feel like there's a comms opportunity here about the role of government that I doubt anyone will seize on 🤷🏽♂️ it's small, but this feels like an obvious rule that would have been popular and messaging on it would add to the narrative about unchecked corporations/profit vs. people
Appeals court strikes down click-to-cancel rule
www.theverge.com/news/702398/...
www.theverge.com/news/702398/...
July 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I use the click-to-cancel FTC rule all the time to explain why the war on the admin state matters. The whole "shadowy deep state bureaucrats!!!!!" characterization really loses momentum once you flesh out what the shadowy deep state bureaucrats do
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Some pro-AI folks need to make some choices because the spaghetti they're throwing at walls is getting pretty tangled:
- is it just a tool or is it going to transform everything?
- does it empower us or is it already here and we have to get used to it?
- does it save time or enable us to do more?
- is it just a tool or is it going to transform everything?
- does it empower us or is it already here and we have to get used to it?
- does it save time or enable us to do more?
June 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Some pro-AI folks need to make some choices because the spaghetti they're throwing at walls is getting pretty tangled:
- is it just a tool or is it going to transform everything?
- does it empower us or is it already here and we have to get used to it?
- does it save time or enable us to do more?
- is it just a tool or is it going to transform everything?
- does it empower us or is it already here and we have to get used to it?
- does it save time or enable us to do more?
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No, to be honest, I don't want an AI summary of the article I'm reading. That misses the point in such a profound way. Neither reading nor writing should be about the 'product"! Also I'm sick of literally every computer based tool that I use adding AI.
**Ludite tendencies intensify**
**Ludite tendencies intensify**
June 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
No, to be honest, I don't want an AI summary of the article I'm reading. That misses the point in such a profound way. Neither reading nor writing should be about the 'product"! Also I'm sick of literally every computer based tool that I use adding AI.
**Ludite tendencies intensify**
**Ludite tendencies intensify**
We're told that the reason we need to put up with all of the awful harms of AI is because, at some point, AI will be so powerful it will solve all of our problems, from poverty to climate change to our health. It will make our jobs easier and/or it will ultimately help us lead the job-free lives.
June 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We're told that the reason we need to put up with all of the awful harms of AI is because, at some point, AI will be so powerful it will solve all of our problems, from poverty to climate change to our health. It will make our jobs easier and/or it will ultimately help us lead the job-free lives.
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“I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing.” Yep.
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing.” Yep.
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Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.
Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic
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Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
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People are always saying on social media that gen-AI is here to stay and that it’s retrograde and standing in the way of progress if we reject it. But there are plenty of things that were once the embodiment of progress that we collectively decided to reject, from cocaine in soft drinks to eugenics
May 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
People are always saying on social media that gen-AI is here to stay and that it’s retrograde and standing in the way of progress if we reject it. But there are plenty of things that were once the embodiment of progress that we collectively decided to reject, from cocaine in soft drinks to eugenics
