How interesting that most senior managers say using AI makes them way more efficient, while those who do the intellectual work say using AI to generate drafts generates reams of fatuous slop that needs to be extensively rewritten & saves no labour time at all.

Is this because senior managers are using AI mostly to draw on quality information produced by workers?

Or because for senior managers (& politicians!), AI works because talking in verbose, content-less management speak - that can never be factually or analytically challenged bc it is invariably ambiguous, always plausibly deniable & often makes no sense at all - is what they are paid to do. It is actually THE JOB.

I’ll love to see an empirical study that tests this 😎.

If you know of one, please tell!!

#AI #slop #InstitutionalEthnography #sociology #ethnography #research #politics #business #lobbying #PlausibleDeniability #AusPol

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’

Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections

The Guardian

Over the past few days I've been trying to transform quotes from my research on peer support institutionalization into little comic strips -- here's a sneak peak, featuring one of my favourite discussions of ours!

#PeerSupport #Research #MadStudies #Madodon #MentalHealth #Healthcare #Institutionalization #InstitutionalEthnography

(my thesis & an 11-page plain language summary are available here: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28026)

MacSphere: Troubling Peer Support Institutionalization: A Mad Institutional Ethnography; Or, Everyday Documentation, De/Valuing, & Values Work in Institutionalized Peer Support

Want to learn about and with scholars interested in Dorothy Smith's sociology for people?

Come join the Research for Social Change Lab in Peterborough for a free open school anti-conference on May 10th/11th at Traill College (Trent University).

#InstitutionalEthnography #IE

More info/to register: https://www.socialchangelab.ca/open-school

The Dorothy Smith Open School and Anti-Conference — Research for Social Change Lab

Two days of inquiry, reflection, and collaborative learning focused on Institutional Ethnography, the sociology for people developed by Dorothy Smith

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