At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
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Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers
To Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America: We are standing on a precipice. At its simplest level, our job as …
ENVISIONING CARDS. A VALUE SENSITIVE DESIGN TOOLKIT Use the Envisioning Cards to create ethical technology and improve your design practice. The 2nd Edition consists of 42 Envisioning Cards downloadable in PDF format. DOWNLOAD & PRINT The Envisioning Cards … Continued
I’m not anti-AI. I’m anti-bullshit.
For those struggling to reconcile my work in AI product and strategy with the things I’ve been saying - let me make it plain.
Yes, I help teams build real AI products.
And yes, I refuse to prop up fantasies just because they’re lucrative.
These aren’t contradictions.
They’re what make me credible.
I know what this tech can do. I also know what it can’t. And I know exactly how it’s being spun to look like something it isn’t - not to help people, but to sell illusions dressed up as inevitability.
We’re deliberately engineering the illusion of cognition. Not building minds - just engineering machines that mimic well enough to blur the line.
Augmentation is promised whilst replacement is sold.
And when the flaws emerge - hallucinations, cascading failure modes, confidently wrong outputs at scale - the spin kicks in:
“That’s just temporary.”
“That’s just a data problem.”
“That’s just a prompt away.”
It’s not. It’s structural. It’s endemic to the heart of this technology.
Calling that out doesn’t make me anti-AI. It makes me more qualified to work in this field - because I don’t have to lie to make it useful.
That’s why I’m valuable in what I do.
I don’t just know what to build - I know what not to build.
I understand what we’re building toward.
I understand the moral, ethical, philosophical, reputational, financial implications.
I’m not high on my own supply.
So no I won’t dress this tech in a halo. I won’t help gaslight the world into trusting a system that doesn’t understand a word it says.
But if you want real clarity - the kind that holds up after the hype collapses - then yes, I’m someone worth talking to.
This moment doesn’t need more AI evangelists.
It needs realism. It needs judgment. It needs people who can filter the bullshit and advise with clarity, those who see the cracks and still deliver.
And that’s exactly what I do.
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ILO Live - Revolutionizing health and safety: The role of AI and digitalization at work
AI and digital tools are revolutionizing occupational safety and health. Today, robots are operating in hazardous environments, doing the heavy lifting, managing toxic materials and working in extreme temperatures. They take on repetitive and monotonous tasks, while digital devices and sensors can detect hazards early on. At the same time, in the absence of adequate OSH measures, digital technologies can lead to accidents, ergonomic risks, work intensification, reduced job control and blurred boundaries. On the occasion of World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025 this event brings together ILO constituents and international experts to explore how AI and digitalization are reshaping OSH systems across sectors and countries.
Why do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI?
For some people, it seems, AI is an amazing machine which - while fallible - represents an incredible leap forward in productivity. For other people, it seems, AI is wrong more often than right and - although occasionally useful - requires constant supervision. Who is right? I recently pointed out a few common problems with LLMs. I was discussing this with someone relatively senior who works…
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
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115 Years Ago, in ‘The Machine Stops,’ E. M. Forster Presented A Dark Potential Future for our Relationship to AI
We’re so busy absorbed in the hyper-speed cycle of press releases from the technoculture’s AI juggernaut that it's hard to take a moment to look into the past for insight. If we did, we might realise there was a piece of literature, published more than a century ago, paints a dark potential future o
Climate Justice and Labor Rights | Part I: AI Supply Chains and Workflows
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US states sue 23andMe to protect customers’ private data | CNN Business
New York and more than two dozen other US states sued 23andMe to challenge the sale of its customers’ private information after the genetic testing company filed for bankruptcy in March.
On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up
Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …