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Kate O'Neill

@kateoneill.bsky.social

"Tech Humanist." Future-ready strategy. Founder & CEO, KOInsights.com. Host, The Tech Humanist Show (thetechhumanist.com). Thinkers50. CSP. Ex-Netflix. Keynote speaker; 6x author (WHAT MATTERS NEXT); bylines Fast Company, WIRED, et al. Vegan, bi, linguist.

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Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates

Kate O'Neill@kateoneill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy National Sunglasses Day from me and my sunglasses-ist book amzn.to/4xT61CO

A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World

A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World - Kindle edition by O'Neill, Kate. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism and Meaningful Innovation Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World.

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Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool

Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...

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Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · 4mo ago

"Why Politicians Lie About Trade" is now available in paperback! Get the book critical reviewers on Amazon called "Funny but not interesting" and "interesting but not funny." www.amazon.com/Why-Politici...

Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ... and What You Need to Know About It

Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ... and What You Need to Know About It [Grozoubinski, Dmitry] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ... and What You Need to Know About It

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Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its AI models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in ‌internal memos..."

Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad i...

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Kate O'Neill@kateoneill.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I love when you’re watching a show set in NYC and a character mentions their favorite food or store or whatever, and you look it up and it’s real and it’s still there and now you have tomorrow’s itinerary all planned out

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Good piece on "Frankenstein citations" in academic publishing, illustrating why the scale of the problem has proven hard to quantify, and why coming up with technical fixes like submission screeners remains more troublesome than it would first seem www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

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Kate O'Neill@kateoneill.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is cool, and it’s VERY #PixelsAndPlace (throwback to my 2016 book). Niantic’s using Pokémon Go’s crowdsourced city-scale imagery to help robots navigate with centimeter-level precision: www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1...

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

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Kate O'Neill@kateoneill.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My US event briefings from speaker bureaus often refer to me as the "talent." My UK briefings often refer to me as the "artiste." As in: 18:45 - Artiste to arrive for the evening 20:20 - 20:50 - Artiste session One must pair this with sufficient reality checks to keep one from getting a big head

Kate O'Neill@kateoneill.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Boycotting Big Tech may not dent their bottom line, but that's not the entire point. When you participate in a boycott, you're claiming an identity that aligns with principled resistance. You're making your values visible and refusing complicity.

Ambitious anti-ICE Big Tech boycott has begun in America: will it work?

Small businesses struggled to observe a nationwide general strike to protest ICE but professor Scott Galloway says that a boycott of Big Tech companies could be more effective.

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Kate O'Neill@kateoneill.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Have barely heard a peep about Chuck Negron from Three Dog Night the other day, and have to give him at least a small shoutout because "Joy to the World" was absolutely UBIQUITOUS when I was a kid, and it's astonishing that the same voice sang "An Old Fashioned Love Song" and "One" and "Shambala."