🤑 We pay. You pay. Palantir doesn’t. A new report finds that #Palantir is paying little to no corporate tax in Europe while expanding its influence over public services, policing, defence and national security. 💲 Public money in. Almost no tax out. Read the report: www.epsu.org/article/pala...

Palantir pays almost no corporate tax in Europe while benefitting from public contracts: new report

A new report reveals that Palantir is paying little to no corporate taxes in Europe while building massive profits and share value off the back of public contracts.

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☑️ We pay. ❌ They don’t. Why? 👀 Any guess who "they" are? Find out who - sign up here👇🏾 forms.gle/jwmY5ASNaBof...

🤑 Public money should serve the public good - not Big Tech. A new briefing from @thewhynotlab.com and Hannah Johnston sets out six principles for public procurement that protects digital sovereignty, workers’ rights and democratic control. Check it out 👇 www.epsu.org/article/publ...

Public procurement must support digital sovereignty, not corporate control

Billions of euros are spent every year on digital and AI systems - yet EU procurement rules still provide too few clear principles for how these systems should be bought with public money.

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@thewhynotlab.com urges unions not to wait for regulation - act now. Map where AI and digital systems are used, hold management accountable, and draw clear red lines. Collective bargaining is our strongest tool to shape a fair digital future. 💪🤖

Next week. A timely Summit aimed at discussing whether, and if so how, #AIsystems are affecting the Nordic industrial relations models #IRModels 🎯 Friday Feb 13 in Oslo 🎯 Buy half-day or whole-day tickets 🎯 Book the governance workshop on the 14th In English. nordicaisummit.org/

Nordic AI Union Summit 2025

Join the Nordic AI Union Summit 2025! Explore AI’s impact on work and the importance of the nordic Model!

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Trade union ideas for realising AI opportunities: 🤝🏽 collective bargaining 💡worker led innovation 👷🏽 AI to enhance work ⚖️ equal outcomes ❤️ protect human values and creativity 🌎 sustainable growth 🪑 seat at the table for worker reps 📃 update laws 🔥empower people

K12 schools will open in the USA soon that exclusively will use #AI rather than teachers. Why would any parent send their kids there? gizmodo.com/arizona-scho... #edtech #AI #teachers

Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers

The state's charter school board approved an application on Monday from Unbound Academy to open a school with a two-hour per day academic curriculum set by AI.

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❓What can seat belt crash tests teach us about the requirements for #AI #governance? New podcast episode with me on #bias #discrimination in AI systems, #governance and workplace responsibility. www.thewhynotlab.com/podcasts/wom...

Ethics, Governance, and Inclusivity in the AI Age — The Why Not Lab

In this podcast, Christina delves into the pressing issues surrounding the governance of digital systems. She enlightens us on the powerful role of worker advocacy in digital systems, emphasizing the ...

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Have management forgotten their GDPR obligations (towards workers)? Much indicates they have! Read my latest post here: www.thewhynotlab.com/blog/gdprvio... #gdpr #workersrights #dpia #transparency #datarights.

🚨Alarmklokkerne blinker hastigt ved nyheden om den digitale taskforce for #kunstigintelligens. Målet er at spare mellem 10.000 og 99.000 årsværk i den offentlige sektor. Men hvad er det for et mål? En 🧵

This -- once again, people aren't against *technology writ large*. they're against technology that is at best stupid, at worst evil, made by the same set of billionaire men whose track record of prior tech has decimated whole industries and made people worse off

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2y ago

What angers people about AI? They don’t want to be forced out of their jobs. They don’t want to feel like their public interactions are being used to impoverish them while making some asshole rich. I believe we can find a way to work backwards from there on regulating and controlling AI.

Worth a read 👇 Ping all US #laborunions and friend clje.law.harvard.edu/quick-fixes-...

Quick Fixes to Lock in Wins for Workers: How States Can Preserve New Federal Protections - Center for Labor and a Just Economy

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Biden administration adopted a range of key protections for US workers – from safeguards against extreme heat,…

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For alle os, der er afhængig af medicin for overhovedet at være til, så er sundhedsvæsenets stilhed omkring medicin prepping ufattelig larmende. #prepping #danmark @sophieloehde.venstre.dk

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/

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AI regulation will not protect #fundamentalrights despite claims of the opposite. Read my thoughts on how we could rethink #digital regulation to truly center #humanrights & ultimately #democracy 👇 www.thewhynotlab.com/blog/rethink... Find Holistic AIs reg tracker here: tracker.holisticai.com/feed

Rethinking Digital Regulation — The Why Not Lab

What three overarching principles could change the regulation of digital systems so fundamental rights are truly protected in digitalised societies and labour markets?

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Curious about how the 40-hour workweek became standard? 🕒 In a Social Science History paper I investigate which political parties pushed for—or resisted—working-time regulations from the late 19th to the 20th century.

We are automating jobs that many present and future workers rely on for an income. We must ask what the long term social consequences of this will be. Great article here from @nytimes.com Robots Struggle to Match Warehouse Workers on ‘Really Hard’ Jobs www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/b...

Robots Struggle to Match Warehouse Workers on ‘Really Hard’ Jobs

The machines can load and unload trucks, move goods and do other repetitive tasks but are stymied by some, like picking items from a pile.

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Quite like this essay from Gelman, @economeager.bsky.social, and friends "Toward a taxonomy of trust for probabilistic machine learning" Basically, the failure points for trust across the machine learning pipeline

Toward a taxonomy of trust for probabilistic machine learning

A taxonomy delineates where trust can break down in a probabilistic machine learning workflow that informs critical decisions.

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#digitaltechnologies by nature are manipulative. Inferences, profiling, and the use of said are limiting, defining, enabling, fragmenting. 📣 I call on governments to add that humans must have a right to be free from algorithmic manipulation as a condition for the realisation of #humanrights

Very interesting read on the Trust Thermocline. I imagine @garius.bsky.social that the same logic applies to public services who are going digital without regard to the effect on public trust?

John Bull@garius.eurosky.social · 2y ago

Had a tech bro tell me this morning that I need to go away and learn about the Trust Thermocline, to understand why emotive products like Twitter fail slowly then suddenly. I pointed out I am fully aware of the Trust Thermocline. On account of being the chap who created it every.to/p/breaching-...

Take a wild guess who appointed that judge. That’s right — Donald Trump. Thanks to him, 4 million people will no longer get a raise. It’s far from the first time he’s cheated working class people out of their money, and it certainly won’t be the last.

Recent blog post about regulating #digitalplatforms, what we can learn from regulatory developments in Europe, and why the upcoming #ILO instrument should apply to all workers who are subjected to #algorithmicmanagement www.thewhynotlab.com/blog/dontsay...

Why we shouldn’t talk about the gig economy — The Why Not Lab

When we say “the gig economy” we are implicitly saying that another economy exists that is somehow different from the gig one. This division is false. It is leading to a fragmentation of workers’ rig...

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Here is a list of tools and guides I have developed or been part of a team of developers to empower #workers in #digitalised workplaces. 1. Weclock. www.weclock.it WeClock is an #opensource privacy preserving app to help workers collect their own data to challenge/campaign working conditions.

Here a great starterpack for folks interestednin #data and #AI from a civil society perspective go.bsky.app/FDKqcty

Here is a great starterpack for folks interested in #digitalisationofwork #workersrights #algorithmicmanagement #platformworkers go.bsky.app/Aag5R43

@levin.bsky.social could you kindly add me to labour union people starter pack?

Morning all. Bluesky questions❓ 1. Is it possible to search for starterpacks? 2. Is it possible to pin the starterpacks that I am included in to remain up to date with members?

#gdpr question. A 🧵 I am struggling to understand Article 13 and 14 when related to management-employees in workplaces. Example. Management logs clock in and out times via employees electronic key card. /Continued