AI

Contemporary ideas about data and privacy are tied up inextricably with language choices.

Nature - Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and intellectual-property protection.

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

As AI comes for podcasting (and everything else), humans are equipping listeners with research, nuance, and ways to fight back.

Low-effort, AI-generated work is wasting people’s time and seeding frustration.

This fall, the new luddites are rising

NB. this is the draft introduction to the final chapter of my still-being-written book on AI and education (‘AI and education: the challenge of thinking differently’ Polity, due late 2026). As we h…

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

AI slop is winning.

Elizabeth Palumbo, Syracuse University Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I’m sitting at a desk in a college classroom in Upstate New York. It’s nearing the end of the fall semester of my seni…

The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump.

A Response to Thomas Friedman's Recent AI Columns in the New York Times

At Alpha School, students do only two hours of academic work a day, and tuition costs $75,000.

Tekoälyllä tehdyt kuvat ovat olleet kaupungin sivuilla jo kaksi vuotta, mutta niiden käyttö nousi julkiseen keskusteluun tällä viikolla.

These AI tools are useful, but they have serious limitations.

In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

The US Census Bureau conducts a biweekly survey of 1.2 million firms, and one question is whether a business has...

The only way data and AI can be used for good is with restrictive controls to prevent damage to democracy.

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

Technology's Distortions of Language Language is a vessel through which meaning is mutually constructed. From this shared imagination, we learn how others understand and aim to understand them. We also navigate how much of ourselves to put into this space. The imagination space is therefore negotiated through language: our thoughts

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers are scrambling to understand the emerging phenomenon of "AI psychosis."

The Data Workers' Inquiry is a global, radically participatory research initiative spanning nine countries across five continents.

A reading for your students

Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. That you should know what to type into prompt windows, because it will save you time. That will get you jobs in the economy

Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse.

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems’.

Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work.

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.