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When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.

Now is probably the time to announce that I've been writing a book about OpenAI, the AI industry & its impacts. Here is a slice of my book reporting, combined with reporting from the inimitable Charlie Warzel. Inside the year of chaos that led to this weekend. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Happy to announce that my paper "The Development of AI Ethics in Japan: Ethics-washing Society 5.0?" has just been published in EASTS, part of a forthcoming special issue on AI and robots in Japan and South Korea that I'm co-editing with Giulia De Togni @giulia-de-togni.bsky.social : tandfonline.com/eprint/WSKHYXT…

📢Publication alert! Check out our newest Policy Brief for Mapineq by Jani Erola Melinda Mills & Heike Solga WZB Beyond Education and Training – How Can We Adapt to Future Needs of Local Labour Markets? 🔗population-europe.eu/research/polic…

📢 Full Professorship on Technology and Society!! Deadline: January 4th, 2024 Please share and/or apply! cc for RT: IAMCR ASA Sociology European Sociological Association ECSR Sociology ISA For any questions about Trinity College Dublin & Dublin, I am happy to chat, as staff from TCD Sociology!

Learn about AI and the future of unpaid domestic work with your morning cup of tea, and join @KatyaH_kenkyuu Vili Lehdonvirta and me tomorrow at 9am UKT. You can also listen to us in Japanese! cf.ocha.ac.jp/igi-en/j/menu/…

"From the Classroom to the Workplace – AI Technologies and the Changing Face of Education" Join us for this online event with Prof Helmut Krcmar, Dr Lulu, Prof Stephan Krusche and Dr Fabian Stephany, in partnership with TU München. Tickets here: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

How do AI applications coexist with existing forms of expertise in the public services - from health to education? Join us in person at the Department of Education, University of Oxford or online and meet Prof Maja Hojer Bruun talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/eb33a…

#EASST4S2024 call is out! Tanja Schneider, Loïc Riom and I are organising a panel ‘Assetiztion of knowledge and knowledge of assetization in financialized capitalism’. Consider submitting if you are interested in knowledge, assets, rentiership. See here: t.ly/yfA1n

This can be sociologists working on AI and education, and also education researchers looking at AI from sociological perspective. Do shout if this is you!

Pleased to announce that our edited book has come out. 'The politics of silence, voice and the in-between attempts to theorise agency and agentive-responses to oppression and violence through understanding the lived experiences from the margins'. routledge.com/The-Politics-o…

For a SI in B Jl Sociology of Ed (bjse.bsky.social) (soon to be announced on the BJSE website), we are looking for contributions discussing AI and education. Please do reach out to me or my co-editors, Rebecca Eynon, Jeremy Knox , and @Neil_Selwyn if you have any questions. We look forward to your abstracts!

Mark your calendars 📅On 6th March I have the pleasure of talking to the FT's AI Editor Madhumita Murgia about her new book "Code Dependent" here at the Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxford. In-person and online, sign-up details here: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

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In this week’s #blog, Lulu presents some takeaways from the edtech summit EdTechX, which provided several insights into the edtech sector. 🌐 👉 ow.ly/wUMS50RkZoi

Fascinating to learn about the UN's perspectives on digital education. Many thanks for hosting me and for the insightful discussions, Dr Yuta Hirose, Tshilidzi Marwala チリツィ・マルワラ . 丸笑 and team.

We found important struggles in making data valuable in EdTech and at universities. Read below about the work I did with Kean Birch, Sam Sellar, and Morten Hansen.

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Check out our report examining policy discourses on AI and education. Findings include: 1) the discourse often prioritises technological innovation over systemic issues 2) key words such as "safety" and "data privacy" are frequently used as rhetorical tools for justifications.

Last PhD paper finally published. Cannot be grateful enough to my PhD supervisors @christianimdorf and Prof Max M. Bergman! emerald.com/insight/conten…