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AI is propping up the US economy

Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

Got home from some travel only to take off to SF to speak on a panel about AI and work for a CalMatters conference with state lawmakers and labor leaders, and made it back to LA in time for the 404 live event night, where I had the pleasure of bumping into a bunch of BITM readers. Recognizing from history the possibilities of where this all might lead, the prospect of any serious economic downturn being met with a widespread push of mass automation—paired with a regime overwhelmingly friendly to the tech and business class, and executing a campaign of oppression and prosecution of precarious manual and skilled laborers—well, it should make us all sit up and pay attention. We have done interviews and other engagements since the survey, and have overwhelmingly found that instead of improving working and learning conditions, administrators are too easily wooed by tech industry hype, and they are quick to deploy technology solutions which are cheaper and far less effective in bringing about positive change in higher education.

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