This is both terrifying and deeply, deeply stupid.

free six week course for activists on digital capitalism tni.org/en/event/digit…

Invest 50 minutes of your life to attend this seminar by International Labour Organization economists Uma Rani and Rishabh Dhir. Based on three #DiPLab studies on invisible labor and deceptive technology, they ask: Is this the kind of AI development we want? diplab.eu/video-ilo-semi… youtube.com/watch?v=QtFrk1…

📢 Deadline extended: Call for papers & register interest for the International Conference on Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure 📅 20 May📍Cape Town + online: bit.ly/3P6CVLu ⏰ Deadline: 12pm, 2 Apr Explore DPI, submit papers & shape future of #DigitalInfrastructure!

5 recordings of recent events that may be of interest to anyone thinking about the #digitalgood... The University of Sheffield Economic and Social Research Council Social Sciences | The University of Sheffield Prof Helen Kennedy, @[email protected] ros williams Jack Qiu Gabriela Ramos Sharon Strover Dan Sutch Łukasz Szulc melissa terras Ingmar Weber #digitalsociety

2/5 Digital Good from the Global South with Payal Arora, Jonathan Corpus Ong & Ranjit Singh. digitalgood.net/promoting-the-… @3Lmantra Jonathan Corpus Ong Ranjit Singh Data & Society #OracleOng University of Massachusetts Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, PhD. @danijaradent.bsky.s sanjib roy @LeloThales Andrea Medrado /@[email protected] Nora Suren, PhD Sagnik Dutta 🌈 Paolo Gerli PhD

Intellectual monopolies harm society by privately monetizing intangible goods. Their value extraction through rents deprives access to knowledge & reduces other firms’ share in total value produced. Read IIPP Head of Research Cecilia Rikap on her book ➡️ developingeconomics.org/2021/04/07/int…

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

As long as AI systems are trained to reproduce human-generated data (e.g. text) and have no search/planning/reasoning capability, performance will saturate below or around human level. Furthermore, the amount of trials needed to reach that level will be far larger than the

A short contribution with Matteo and Taube. Comments welcome. Sustainable Welfare: Social Protection in Times of Ecological Crisis greeneuropeanjournal.eu/sustainable-we…

🗪 #PublicLecture: Rigour, imagination & production in data-driven science 📅 20 Jun🕰️5.30–8.30pm📍 King's College London 🆓🎫bit.ly/4bWthUy Mark Theory & Method Challenge Fortnight w/ Andrew Gelman (Andrew Gelman et al.), Jessica Hullman & @HadleyWickham. #AI #DataScience

So much discussion about China overcapacity due to industrial policy, and so little discussion about undercapacity in the US due to financialisation

Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build data centers to power AI. But analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than they’re reporting. theguardian.com/technology/202…

Darlan Helder Mariana Mazzucato Thomas Piketty Daron Acemoglu Shoshana Zuboff Yanis Varoufakis Evgeny Morozov (evgenymorozov.bsky.social) Gabriel Zucman Jayati Ghosh Jason Hickel The link is indeed broken for Brazil and for some but not everyone in the US 😭 Trying to solve it but I still don't know what platform to use. The letter is attached here in English, Portuguese, how it looks online & the first list of supporters (full list soon) Email me

KaiHH , Luna Xiaolu Li, Blair Attard Frost, and I analyzed Canada's AI policy and its implications for the world of work. Project led by Phoebe V Moore, Professor, University or Essex essex.ac.uk/research-proje…

Very happy to be in Canada 🇨🇦 to meet François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦 and visit Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. 🇪🇺 and 🇨🇦 share so much. Based on real friendships we share a common human centric approach - to AI, digital, data, connectivity, competition.

🌟TOMORROW!🌟 Closing out the year with a powerful panel on how we’re all data workers—and how we can resist. W/an incredible lineup: Oscar Araya (ARTE es ÉTICA), Alex Minschall (Guerrilla Media Collective), John Lopez, Rafael Grohmann, and the great Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا). events.zoom.us/ev/AoEkvePmTHA…

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🎤How should competition policy respond to #AI developments? UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose Prof Cecilia Rikap will join an expert panel on balancing innovation with regulation at the upcoming OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives Competition Open Day on February 26th. 🔗Learn more and register here: oecd-events.org/competition-op…