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Robert Gorwa
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Researching the politics of tech policy {esp. platform governance & content moderation} at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Casilli 
[NEW BLOG POST] Uber letting drivers label data during downtime marks the collapse of a long fiction: gig work, content creation & data labeling were never separate. The Great Digital Labor Convergence is here—everyone now feeds the same AI machine. https://www.casilli.fr/2025/10/18/ai-and-the-great-digital-labor-convergence/
Michael VealeWill Oxford disclose how much it paid (or did not pay) for their new ChatGPT Edu for all license?
Surely a sweetheart deal (has research money thrown in!) so OpenAI can plaster Oxford over its marketing and raid other unis’ fees, library budgets to throw into the sector’s massive inference funding chasm.
As a benefit, OpenAI also get to digitise the Bodleian!
Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students | University of Oxford
OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5 model will be provided across the University and Oxford Colleges through ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and controls.
Ars TechnicaAI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
George MonbiotEver more surreal, ever more oppressive. Elderly people in Cardiff holding cardboard signs supporting Palestine Action get their doors stoved in, homes raided and food apparently tested for radioactive materials.
Cardboard: the new weapon of mass destruction. 🧵
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
PR, DoJ, Police divided
PR, DoJ, Police divided
PR, DoJ, Police divided
For immediate release, 14 July 2025 POLICE DIVIDED OVER PALESTINE ACTION PROTESTS Cardiff, 12 July, extended detention and raids Derry, 12 July, no arrests The spectrum of responses on Saturday ranged from a hands-off approach in Kendal and Derry to surreal repression in Cardiff, where...
Functionally parallel to controlling pedestrians’ unpredictability to make shoddy automated vehicles work.
Christoph BeckerRead this in full. It's short but speaks volumes.
https://genevasolutions.news/science-tech/un-ai-summit-accused-of-censoring-criticism-of-israel-and-big-tech-over-gaza-war
Thanks to @abebab and @Mer__edith.
UN AI summit accused of censoring criticism of Israel and big tech over Gaza war
A prominent AI scientist says she was pressured by the organisers of the UN’s flagship conference on AI to censor parts of her presentation that criticised Israel over its war in Gaza and the role of tech giants – hours before taking the stage.
Reuben Binns⁉️New paper accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein @jmlstein and me, "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278
Over the last 3 years, we've been working with Worker Info Exchange to audit Uber's algorithms.
We analysed 1.5m trips, before/after dynamic pricing intro'd in 2023, and found:
- customer fares per hour are up £32.82 to £43.50
- driver pay per hour fell from £22.20 to £19.06 ...
Félix Tréguer"The policy shift, which hasn’t been publicly disclosed, made #YouTube the latest social media platform to back off efforts to police online speech in the wake of Republican pressure to stop moderating content (...).But unlike #Meta and X, YouTube has not made public statements about relaxing its content moderation. " https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/technology/youtube-videos-content-moderation.html
US AI Safety Institute reformed into Center for AI Standards and Innovation. Mission: “represent US interests internationally to guard against burdensome & unnecessary regulation of US tech by foreign govs & ensure US dominance of int’l AI standards” https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2025/06/statement-us-secretary-commerce-howard-lutnick-transforming-us-ai