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My new @truthout.org op-ed on Artificial Bureaucratic Intelligence: truthout.org/articles/ai-...
AI Isn’t Going to Cut Government Bureaucracy — It’s Going to Vastly Worsen It
Trump is pushing a new artificial intelligence-driven bureaucracy to gut public services and use our data to exploit us.
truthout.org
April 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
My new @truthout.org op-ed on Artificial Bureaucratic Intelligence: truthout.org/articles/ai-...
BBC Mundo article (in Spanish) about Latam-GPT, a Latin American open GenAI project. I am interviewed in the piece, providing a critical response. IMO, projects like this don't do enough to challenge the extractivist and capitalist premises of GenAI. www.bbc.com/mundo/articl... #DataColonialism
Latam-GPT, el proyecto que busca ser el primer modelo de inteligencia artificial colaborativo de América Latina - BBC News Mundo
La iniciativa, que se lanzará a mediados de junio de 2025, busca convertirse en el primer modelo de inteligencia artificial (IA) colaborativo de América Latina y el Caribe, cuya naturaleza promete ser...
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April 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
BBC Mundo article (in Spanish) about Latam-GPT, a Latin American open GenAI project. I am interviewed in the piece, providing a critical response. IMO, projects like this don't do enough to challenge the extractivist and capitalist premises of GenAI. www.bbc.com/mundo/articl... #DataColonialism
"Data Colonialism Comes Home To The US: Resistance Must Too": a Tech Policy Press op-ed by Nick (@couldrynick.bsky.social) and me www.techpolicy.press/data-colonia...
Data Colonialism Comes Home To The US: Resistance Must Too | TechPolicy.Press
Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias write that applying the lens of data colonialism can help explain DOGE and how to resist it.
www.techpolicy.press
February 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Data Colonialism Comes Home To The US: Resistance Must Too": a Tech Policy Press op-ed by Nick (@couldrynick.bsky.social) and me www.techpolicy.press/data-colonia...
Here's a panel Zach Kaiser and I did on "GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education", hosted by the amazing folks at Future U youtu.be/TNjZZjExglI?...
Mejias and Kaiser on GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education
YouTube video by FutureU, Neoliberalism in Higher Education
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February 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Here's a panel Zach Kaiser and I did on "GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education", hosted by the amazing folks at Future U youtu.be/TNjZZjExglI?...
FYI, I'll be participating on a forum on GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education - Tuesday Feb 18. futureu.education/futureu-foru...
NEXT FUTUREU FORUM: Mejias and Kaiser on GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education - Future U
GenAI and Academic Integrity in Higher Education February 18, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST Join the presentation live on YouTube No cost. The link above takes you to the Forum. Generative Artificial ...
futureu.education
February 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
FYI, I'll be participating on a forum on GenAI & Academic Integrity in Higher Education - Tuesday Feb 18. futureu.education/futureu-foru...
'This change in what constitutes “mainstream” speech was necessary to prepare the ground for Trump’s new immigration policies, and it signals a convenient and profitable arrangement between those who control data and those who control borders.'
www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...
www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...
Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown
And the only way to resist it is grassroots mobilisation against the all-powerful broligarchy.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
'This change in what constitutes “mainstream” speech was necessary to prepare the ground for Trump’s new immigration policies, and it signals a convenient and profitable arrangement between those who control data and those who control borders.'
www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...
www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...
My new op-ed. Let's stop pretending GenAI is compatible with the values of the university. futureu.education/higher-ed/co...
COMMENTARY by Ulises A. Mejias: The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity - Future U
By encouraging GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students. Many years ago, I had a student whose written assignments were very hard to decipher. T...
futureu.education
December 27, 2024 at 1:51 PM
My new op-ed. Let's stop pretending GenAI is compatible with the values of the university. futureu.education/higher-ed/co...
Reposted
this is very exciting to hear! Thanks @melhogan.bsky.social
This year, no book seems to have had a bigger influence on the grad students I work with than this one 👇
Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
by @couldrynick.bsky.social @ Ulises A. Mejias
Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
by @couldrynick.bsky.social @ Ulises A. Mejias
Data Grab
A compelling argument that the extractive practices of today’s tech giants are the continuation of colonialism—and a crucial guide to collective resistance. Large technology companies like Meta, Ama...
press.uchicago.edu
December 17, 2024 at 9:08 PM
this is very exciting to hear! Thanks @melhogan.bsky.social