• Will models fine-tuned to particular domains start consistently outperforming frontier models? Encoding habitus into LLMs

• Why are SpringerNature systematically contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics?

• Generational hostility to AI

• Regular Claude users are slightly less likely to have personal conversations with it

• Meditations On A Delivery Robot Steering To Avoid A Homeless Man On The Sidewalk

• Robot dogs that shit out packages onto your front porches

• The delivery robots being trialed in Leeds

• Some notes on the political economy of AGI

• Could mass automation be imminent?

• Three modes of working with LLMs in higher education

• Stop hiring humans: the era of AI employees is here

• How would workplace learning work if there’s an LLM driven removal of entry level jobs?

• Prompting as a literary practice

• Apple’s bleak sales pitch for embedding GenAI into iOS

• The coming wave of AI-driven automation in UK higher education

• Interview with Inside Higher Education about AI text books

• Why spend two minutes trying to tell someone what they meant to you when the platform can write a ‘heartfelt’ message for you?

• The impending GenAI driven automation of higher education

• What the efficiency agenda in UK universities will look like in practice

• The coming wave of automation in UK higher education

• How we integrate GAI into teaching will be as much determined by political economy as pedagogical purpose

• IBM’s Paperwork Explosion Prefigures Hyped Claims about GenAI

• A philosophical sketch of two models of generative AI: conversational agents and copilots

• Generative AI and the Automated University

• How to enjoy writing #20: being a writer means being good at AI

• A first person account of losing your creative job to AI

• GK Chesterton’s Fence and the Problem of Automation

• The UK government wants to use AI to cut 66,000 jobs in the civil service

• On AI therapy

• When technological innovation reduces productivity in the workplace

• Who would handover their life to an LLM? What about their organisation?

• There is a Wikipedia page on obsolete occupations

• Generative AI and the challenge for professionalism

• Do people dismiss GAI-supported work because it doesn’t involve the sacrifice of time?

• The sensory pleasure of ideas and the displaced joys of academic life

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• The Luddite predicament in the 19th century and the 21st century

• What will the automated university look like?

• Elon Musk on deautomation

• Generative AI, the threat of automation and the treatment/diagnosis link

• The impending automation of grant writing

• In universities, a stir, ​automation is to occur

• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

• AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

• The unsettlingly close future of creating your own automated information ecosystem

• The future of human labour: filling in the gaps in AI megamachines?

• The supermarket self-checkout as an exemplar of automation

• Using AI to reduce grading workload and increase student feedback

• A bleakly plausible future for post-pandemic labour

• A machine for killing relationality

• What does it mean to talk about work as dehumanising? A critical realist perspective

• Provincialising disruption

• Two Visions of our Automated Retail Future

• The future of labour in digital capitalism

• Against craft capitalism 

• The Fatalism of the Multitude

• an uncertain future (for other people’s jobs)

• research as a mode of resistance 

• skill complementarity, skill substitution and skill debilitation 

• IFTTT just raised their game